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† rhetoriˈcation Obs.
Also 7 ret-.
[ad. L. rhētoricātiōn-em, n. of action f. rhētoricārī to rhetoricate.]
The action of speaking or writing rhetorically; usually with a and pl., a piece of rhetoric, a rhetorical flourish.
1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. ii. 105 These were but rhetorications in the Fathers. 1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 192, I think it is no Rhetorication to say, That all things are Artificial. a1697Aubrey Lives (1898) I. 253 It was a two-handed rhetorication, but the citizens tooke it in the best sense. 1732Waterland Christ. Vind. 9 Take but away their Rhetorications and equivocal Expressions,..and their Cause will be left in a manner destitute. 1793C. Boettiger Let. in A. Dalzel Hist. Univ. Edin. (1862) I. 107 Blair's blooming rhetorications. |