单词 | rhetorication |
释义 | rhetoricationn. Now archaic and rare. A piece of rhetoric; a rhetorical flourish. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > rhetoric > use of rhetorication1585 rhetoricating1734 1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection sig. aijv Their sixt chapter is a maruelous profound Rhetorication. 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 105 These were but rhetorications in the Fathers. 1645 H. Burton Vindiciæ Veritatis 7 You must pardon me, if I shall assay (according to an old Proverbe) with one stroake of Phocions hatchet, to cut in two the long thread of your Alcibiadian fluent and luxuriant Rhetorications. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Concl. 192 I think it is no Rhetorication to say, That all things are Artificial. a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 253 It was a two-handed rhetorication, but the citizens tooke it in the best sense. 1732 D. Waterland Christianity vindicated against Infidelity 9 Take but away their Rhetorications and equivocal Expressions,..and their Cause will be left in a manner destitute. 1793 C. Boettiger Let. in A. Dalzel Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1862) I. 107 Blair's blooming rhetorications. 1831 Reg. Deb. Congr. VII. 638 Sir, I have been unable to follow the gentleman in this rhetorication, and the only reason is, I have not been able to understand him. 1943 R. Graves Story Marie Powell viii. 102 I heard..the Curate's voice roaring out rhetorications. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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