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Permiss :: Permiss (n.) A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Declamatory :: Declamatory (a.) Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme..

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) The Bastille, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison..

Rhetoric :: Rhetoric (n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose..

Froth :: Froth (n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought..

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..

Rhetoric :: Rhetoric (n.) Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.

Rhetoric :: Rhetoric (n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling..

Declamatory :: Declamatory (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style..

Humanity :: Humanity (n.) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters..

Declamation :: Declamation (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students..

Rhetorical :: Rhetorical (a.) Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish..

Declaim :: Declaim (v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.

Rhetorication :: Rhetorication (n.) Rhetorical amplification.

Amplification :: Amplification (n.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject..

Declamation :: Declamation (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation..

Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.

Trivium :: Trivium (n.) The three liberal arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence..

Topic :: Topic (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory..

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