Definition of "rhetoricians" [rhetoricians]

• Plural form of rhetorician. (noun)

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• "But sometimes descriptivists are guilty of, at the least, a basic misunderstanding: they think that the iffy, messy, unscientific, but nevertheless useful advice of rhetoricians is a feckless attempt to do what the linguist is doing: articulate consistent algorithms of language, to arrive at scientific laws which can admit of no exceptions."
• "Early in the first century the censors issued an edict forbidding certain Latin rhetoricians to teach."
• "But is interesting, to put it mildly, to hear one of the Bush Administration’s main rhetoricians locate the lost golden age at 1992 and 2000."