Definition of "rhetorician" [rhet•o•ri•cian]

• An expert in or teacher of rhetoric. (noun)
• An eloquent speaker or writer. (noun)
• A person given to verbal extravagance. (noun)

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• "To the logician, it appears to be a paradox, whereas the rhetorician is likely to ponder its persistent oscillation between the inalienable status of the name and the as yet unrealized authority of the concept."
• "The rhetorician is a maker of beliefs in the souls of his auditors"
• "He characteristically remarks that he will not speak as a rhetorician, that is to say, he will not make a regular defence such as Lysias or one of the orators might have composed for him, or, according to some accounts, did compose for him."