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单词 rhetor
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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. Dviiiv 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. 31v 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).
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