| 释义 |
rhetoricize, v.|rɪˈtɒrɪsaɪz|
[f. rhetoric n.1 + -ize.]
a. intr. = rhetorize v.
b. trans. (Chiefly in ppl. a.) To characterize with rhetoric; to make rhetorical. Also fig. Hence rheˌtoriciˈzation, the act or process of rhetoricizing.
1676R. Meggott Sermon on St. Paul's Day 10 But we (as he very melancholily rhetoriciseth) are naked, impotent, and shiftless. 1932C. S. Lewis in Essays & Stud. XVII. 62 A detailed study of the Book of Troilus would reveal this ‘rhetoricization’, if I may coin an ugly word, as the common quality of many of Chaucer's additions. 1934T. Wood Cobbers xviii. 235 This youngster was born with a golden tongue in its mouth and was fed on rhetoricized milk. 1965New Statesman 22 Oct. 604/1 All excellently put—though a tendency to rhetoricise is already apparent in the plea for ‘the real impenetrable human person’. 1972G. S. Fraser in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind. II. xi. 395 The moral stance is strong just because, unlike Lawrence's changing and always dramatized or rhetoricized moral stances, it is not assertive. |