Definition of rhetoric

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Rhetoric (n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling..

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Rethor :: Rethor (n.) A rhetorician; a careful writer.
Rhetorication :: Rhetorication (n.) Rhetorical amplification.
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..
Trivium :: Trivium (n.) The three liberal arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence..
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..
Tropology :: Tropology (n.) A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word..
Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
Irrhetorical :: Irrhetorical (a.) Not rethorical.
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..
Rhetorical :: Rhetorical (a.) Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish..
Rhetoric :: Rhetoric (n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose..
Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (a.) Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
Rhetoric :: Rhetoric (n.) Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.
Rhetorize :: Rhetorize (v. t.) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification..
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..
Imaginal :: Imaginal (a.) Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins..
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration..
Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..
Rhetoricate :: Rhetoricate (v. i.) To play the orator.
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