Definition of rhetoric

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Rhetoric (n.) Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force..

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Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
Froth :: Froth (n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought..
Trivium :: Trivium (n.) The three liberal arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence..
Disputation :: Disputation (v. i.) A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.
Declamatory :: Declamatory (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style..
Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer..
Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
Rhetor :: Rhetor (n.) A rhetorician.
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..
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..
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.
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration..
Apostrophic :: Apostrophic (a.) Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical..
Declamation :: Declamation (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation..
Permiss :: Permiss (n.) A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.
Rethoryke :: Rethoryke (n.) Rhetoric.
Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (a.) Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week..
Oratorical :: Oratorical (a.) Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay..
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