Definition of "rhetorick" []

• Obsolete form of rhetoric. (noun)

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• "They have been cherished too long for rhetorick to remove them, they can only be expelled by all-powerful Necessity."
• "I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetorick of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition; for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason."
• "It is the rhetorick of Satan; and may pervert a loose or prejudicate belief."