rhetorn.

Brit.

/ˈriːtə/,

/ˈriːtɔː/, U.S.

/ˈridər/,

/ˈrɛdər/

Forms: Middle English rethorer (transmission error), Middle English rector, Middle English retor, Middle English ritther (transmission error), Middle English rittherer (transmission error), Middle English rother (transmission error), Middle English–1500s rethor, Middle English–1500s rethour, 1500s– rhetor; Scottish pre-1700 rethor, pre-1700 rethore, pre-1700 rhetoure, pre-1700 1700s– rhetor; N.E.D. (1908) also records a form Middle English rether.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin rhētor.

Etymology: < classical Latin rhētor (in post-classical Latin often rethor ) teacher of public speaking, rhetorician, trained public speaker (probably always with some disparaging force) < ancient Greek ῥήτωρ public speaker, in Hellenistic Greek also teacher of eloquence, rhetorician < an ablaut variant of the base of ancient Greek (Epic and Ionic) ἐρέω (earlier ϝερέω ; Attic ἐρῶ ) I shall say (see word n.) + -τωρ , suffix forming agent nouns. Compare Middle French retheur , rheteur , recteur , French rhéteur (1372). Compare rhetoric n.², rhetorian n., rhetorician n.The form rector (as also Middle French recteur ) probably results ultimately from association with rector n. and related words; compare also Middle French forms at rhetorian n. and adj.

1. A teacher or professor of rhetoric; a rhetorician. Now chiefly Classical History.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [noun] > one who uses rhetorical language

rhetorica1382

declamatora1387

rhetorc1390

rhetoriana1393

declaimer?a1475

rhetorician1561

rhetoricaster1591

rhetorculist1607

declaimanta1763

c1390 (?c1350) St. Augustine 71 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 62 (MED) Austin þe doctour..was a philosofre and a rethor.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 30 Myn englyssh eek is insufficient It moste been a Rethor [c1415 Lansd. Rector; c1425 Petworth ritther, Petworth in Manly & Rickert rittherer; c1445 Holkham rethorer] excellent That koude his colours longyng for that Art.

c1410 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (BL Add.) (1874) V. 161 (MED) Rethor [a1387 St. John's Cambr. Vitorinus þe rethorik and Donatus þe gramarian beeþ i-holde grete men at Rome].

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 222 Divinouris, rethoris and philosophouris.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) 169 Quintiliane oratoure and rhetoure maist preclare.

1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations vii. 174 Your hearing,..what is it but as of a Rhetor at a desk, to commend or dislike?

1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 142 For that is a story of Demades the Rhetor, who lived above CC years after our Phrygian's time.

1750 W. Warburton Julian Introd. p. xxxiii From the teaching Rhetors they learnt the art of reasoning by similitudes and analogies.

1796 W. Tooke tr. C. M. Wieland Private Hist. Peregrinus Proteus II. 195 Hermias..procured for him an opportunity, in the schools of the rhetors and philosophers, for gaining the first culture of a mind.

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxvi. 454 Themistoklês had received no teaching from philosophers, sophists and rhetors, who were the instructors of well-born youth in the days of Thucydidês.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. viii. xxvii. 534 The..city..was full of professors, rhetors, tutors..grammarians.

1953 Classical Weekly 46 109/1 The author presided at many seminars on the subject of the Roman rhetor's contribution to the art of teaching.

1999 Rhetoric Soc. Q. 29 9 He envisioned the artistic practice of persuasion in concert with the person of his ideal rhetor and the teaching function such a person exercised.

†2. A master of literary eloquence or poetic expression. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > one who uses elegant language

rhetorc1425

rhetoricianc1425

Atticist1835

stylista1849

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 553 (MED) Chaucer now, allas, is nat alyue..Þe noble Rethor þat alle dide excelle.

c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1924) 21 389 (MED) Moral gower, lydgate, Rethor and poete.

1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 192 O reuerend Chaucere, rose of rethoris all.

1606 A. Craig Amorose Songes sig. Dviii^v Thy..virtues..No Poets pen, nor Rhetors tong can tell.

3. An orator, esp. a professional one; a public speaker. Formerly also (depreciative): †a mediocre orator, a mere speechifier (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches

ditera1387

fair speakera1398

speakerc1400

pronouncer?a1425

orator?a1439

oratrice1565

oratress1587

rhetor1588

oratrix?1592

tongue-man1594

tonguesman1596

public speaker1646

holder-forth1661

tub-minister1662

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addresser1665

tub-drubbera1704

speech-maker1710

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orationer1765

speechifiera1777

mob-orator1814

perorator1827

elocutionist1847

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patterer1851

platformer1851

oratist1860

stem-winder1875

addressor1897

pep talker1925

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. v. f. 31^v This were an affect of an extemporall Rhetor to salute a man by name without premeditation.

1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 29 The imagined fierce pedagogy of the Scotch Presbytery that made every Levite a Rabby Busy, every Pulpit Rhetor a Consul, and every Lay-Elder Major General of the Parish.

1711 Pseudarchomastix v. 87 For, these Rhetors, by their Orations, as by Winds veering and blowing from several Quarters, moved the People which way they would.

1775 P. Duigenan Pranceriana 189 False imputations on the members of your council and the public rhetors.

1807 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 5 577 He must be pacing about in his rhetor's cassock, watching its turgid folds.

1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica vii. 383 Not that Chatham was a mere sophistical rhetor.

1874 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 29 Those rhetors who declaim against it.

1896 J. Curtin tr. H. Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis i. 1 He visited the public baths rarely, only when some rhetor happened there who roused admiration and who was spoken of in the city.

1976 J. D. Andrew Major Film Theories iii. 59 The film situation is one which naturally places the rhetor in a position of absolute dominion over his audience.

1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 64 (advt.) It analyzes in detail a scientific test by a scientist who is also a supremely skilled rhetor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rhetor
释义	rhetorn. Brit. /ˈriːtə/, /ˈriːtɔː/, U.S. /ˈridər/, /ˈrɛdər/ Forms: Middle English rethorer (transmission error), Middle English rector, Middle English retor, Middle English ritther (transmission error), Middle English rittherer (transmission error), Middle English rother (transmission error), Middle English–1500s rethor, Middle English–1500s rethour, 1500s– rhetor; Scottish pre-1700 rethor, pre-1700 rethore, pre-1700 rhetoure, pre-1700 1700s– rhetor; N.E.D. (1908) also records a form Middle English rether. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin rhētor. Etymology: < classical Latin rhētor (in post-classical Latin often rethor ) teacher of public speaking, rhetorician, trained public speaker (probably always with some disparaging force) < ancient Greek ῥήτωρ public speaker, in Hellenistic Greek also teacher of eloquence, rhetorician < an ablaut variant of the base of ancient Greek (Epic and Ionic) ἐρέω (earlier ϝερέω ; Attic ἐρῶ ) I shall say (see word n.) + -τωρ , suffix forming agent nouns. Compare Middle French retheur , rheteur , recteur , French rhéteur (1372). Compare rhetoric n.², rhetorian n., rhetorician n.The form rector (as also Middle French recteur ) probably results ultimately from association with rector n. and related words; compare also Middle French forms at rhetorian n. and adj. 1. A teacher or professor of rhetoric; a rhetorician. Now chiefly Classical History. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [noun] > one who uses rhetorical language rhetorica1382 declamatora1387 rhetorc1390 rhetoriana1393 declaimer?a1475 rhetorician1561 rhetoricaster1591 rhetorculist1607 declaimanta1763 c1390 (?c1350) St. Augustine 71 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 62 (MED) Austin þe doctour..was a philosofre and a rethor. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 30 Myn englyssh eek is insufficient It moste been a Rethor [c1415 Lansd. Rector; c1425 Petworth ritther, Petworth in Manly & Rickert rittherer; c1445 Holkham rethorer] excellent That koude his colours longyng for that Art. c1410 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (BL Add.) (1874) V. 161 (MED) Rethor [a1387 St. John's Cambr. Vitorinus þe rethorik and Donatus þe gramarian beeþ i-holde grete men at Rome]. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 222 Divinouris, rethoris and philosophouris. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) 169 Quintiliane oratoure and rhetoure maist preclare. 1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations vii. 174 Your hearing,..what is it but as of a Rhetor at a desk, to commend or dislike? 1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 142 For that is a story of Demades the Rhetor, who lived above CC years after our Phrygian's time. 1750 W. Warburton Julian Introd. p. xxxiii From the teaching Rhetors they learnt the art of reasoning by similitudes and analogies. 1796 W. Tooke tr. C. M. Wieland Private Hist. Peregrinus Proteus II. 195 Hermias..procured for him an opportunity, in the schools of the rhetors and philosophers, for gaining the first culture of a mind. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxvi. 454 Themistoklês had received no teaching from philosophers, sophists and rhetors, who were the instructors of well-born youth in the days of Thucydidês. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. viii. xxvii. 534 The..city..was full of professors, rhetors, tutors..grammarians. 1953 Classical Weekly 46 109/1 The author presided at many seminars on the subject of the Roman rhetor's contribution to the art of teaching. 1999 Rhetoric Soc. Q. 29 9 He envisioned the artistic practice of persuasion in concert with the person of his ideal rhetor and the teaching function such a person exercised. †2. A master of literary eloquence or poetic expression. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > one who uses elegant language rhetorc1425 rhetoricianc1425 Atticist1835 stylista1849 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 553 (MED) Chaucer now, allas, is nat alyue..Þe noble Rethor þat alle dide excelle. c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1924) 21 389 (MED) Moral gower, lydgate, Rethor and poete. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 192 O reuerend Chaucere, rose of rethoris all. 1606 A. Craig Amorose Songes sig. Dviii^v Thy..virtues..No Poets pen, nor Rhetors tong can tell. 3. An orator, esp. a professional one; a public speaker. Formerly also (depreciative): †a mediocre orator, a mere speechifier (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches ditera1387 fair speakera1398 speakerc1400 pronouncer?a1425 orator?a1439 oratrice1565 oratress1587 rhetor1588 oratrix?1592 tongue-man1594 tonguesman1596 public speaker1646 holder-forth1661 tub-minister1662 spokesman1663 addresser1665 tub-drubbera1704 speech-maker1710 speecher1762 orationer1765 speechifiera1777 mob-orator1814 perorator1827 elocutionist1847 tub-orator1849 spokester1850 patterer1851 platformer1851 oratist1860 stem-winder1875 addressor1897 pep talker1925 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. v. f. 31^v This were an affect of an extemporall Rhetor to salute a man by name without premeditation. 1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 29 The imagined fierce pedagogy of the Scotch Presbytery that made every Levite a Rabby Busy, every Pulpit Rhetor a Consul, and every Lay-Elder Major General of the Parish. 1711 Pseudarchomastix v. 87 For, these Rhetors, by their Orations, as by Winds veering and blowing from several Quarters, moved the People which way they would. 1775 P. Duigenan Pranceriana 189 False imputations on the members of your council and the public rhetors. 1807 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 5 577 He must be pacing about in his rhetor's cassock, watching its turgid folds. 1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica vii. 383 Not that Chatham was a mere sophistical rhetor. 1874 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 29 Those rhetors who declaim against it. 1896 J. Curtin tr. H. Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis i. 1 He visited the public baths rarely, only when some rhetor happened there who roused admiration and who was spoken of in the city. 1976 J. D. Andrew Major Film Theories iii. 59 The film situation is one which naturally places the rhetor in a position of absolute dominion over his audience. 1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 64 (advt.) It analyzes in detail a scientific test by a scientist who is also a supremely skilled rhetor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1390
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