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Rethoryke :: Rethoryke (n.) Rhetoric.

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

Tropical :: Tropical (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

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

Rhetorize :: Rhetorize (v. t.) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification..

Forensic :: Forensic (a.) Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes..

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.

Ramist :: Ramist (n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians..

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

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..

Imaginal :: Imaginal (a.) Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins..

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..

Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant..

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..

Style :: Style (v. t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression..

Deliberative :: Deliberative (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it..

Irrhetorical :: Irrhetorical (a.) Not rethorical.

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

Florid :: Florid (a.) Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence..

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

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