rhetoriciann.

Brit.

/ˌrɛtəˈrɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌrɛdəˈrɪʃən/

Forms: late Middle English rethoricion, late Middle English rethoricyen, late Middle English rethorisyen, late Middle English retorucion, late Middle English retricion, late Middle English retrycyan, late Middle English–1500s rethoricien, late Middle English–1500s rethorycian, late Middle English–1500s rethorycien, late Middle English–1600s rethorician, late Middle English–1600s retorician, late Middle English– rhetorician, 1500s rethoricyan, 1500s rethorisian, 1500s rethorycyen, 1500s rethorycyne, 1500s retrician, 1500s rhetoricien, 1500s–1600s rethoritian, 1500s–1600s rhethorician, 1500s–1600s rhetoritian, 1600s rhethoritian, 1700s returrition; also Scottish pre-1700 rethoriciane.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rethoricien.

Etymology: < Middle French rethoricien, rethorician, retoricien, rhetoricien expert in rhetoric, teacher of rhetoric (c1370; French rhétoricien ) < rhétorique rhetoric n.¹ + -ien -ian suffix (compare -icien -ician suffix). Compare rhetoric n.², rhetor n., rhetorian n.

1. Chiefly Classical History. A professor or teacher of rhetoric; (also) a professional orator. Cf. rhetor n. 1, 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [noun] > teacher of rhetoric

rhetoricianc1425

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 176 After þe maner of gramariens, Nor lyke þe stile of rethoricyens I toke nat on me þis story to translate.

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 9 (MED) He happed to fynde a book þat Tullius Cicero mad, þe grete rhetorician of Rome.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 161 Victorius the rethoricion.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Gi They whiche do onely teache rhetorike..ought to be named rhetoriciens, declamatours, artificiall spekers (named in Greeke Logodedali) or any other name than oratours.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1 And the Rethorician, and Logitian, considering what in Nature will soonest proue and perswade, thereon giue artificial rules.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 148 The figure Imago of the vulgar Rhetoricians.

1674 S. Butler Hudibras (new ed.) i. i. 6 For all a Rhetoricians Rules Teach nothing but to name his Tools.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 231. ¶4 Rhetoricians have recommended it [sc. Modesty] to their Disciples as a Particular in their Art.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music vi. 137 In later Times it became a common Practice for Sophists and Rhetoricians to contend in Prose, at the Olympic Games, for the Crown of Glory.

1790 V. Knox Winter Evenings (ed. 2) II. 197 Eloquence of that kind, which the ancient rhetoricians denominated the epidictic.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. 239 Isocrates was a Rhetorician by profession: the framing of sentences, and turning of periods, was the great business of his long life.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. ii. 329 A curious contrast to the Cynic was the philosophic rhetorician.

1935 Greece & Rome 4 140 He was a rhetorician by profession.

1975 H. Bloom Map of Misreading ii. v. 103 Some modern rhetoricians regard metalepsis as being only an extended metaphor with a central term left out.

1994 30 Days in Church & in World No. 10. 59/2 He had been brought up in the values of Roman paganism by Ausonius, the most famous rhetorician of the period.

†a. A master of literary eloquence; a person who speaks eloquently or elegantly. 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) Prol. 57 (MED) Of thy golde dewe lat the lycour wete My dulled brest, that wyth thyn hony swete Sugrest tongis of rethoricyens.

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 1564 (MED) Clerk with penne, or tunge off retrycyan..can noght telle halff her felycyte.

a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 185 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 547 Whan rethoriciens han doon ther besy peyn Fressh epistolis & lettris to endite.

1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. F4^v It is a thing incident vnto a rethoritian to be girding.

?c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (1910) iv. 17 O happie war the rethoriciane That with sueit wourdis wald lament it!

b. A person who uses language in accordance with the theory and principles of rhetoric, or speaks in a manner typical of orators; esp. (depreciative) a public speaker who indulges in empty or overinflated rhetorical flourishes.

ΘΚΠ

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

rhetorica1382

declamatora1387

rhetorc1390

rhetoriana1393

declaimer?a1475

rhetorician1561

rhetoricaster1591

rhetorculist1607

declaimanta1763

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 16 When that rough..simplicitie doeth raise vp a greater reuerence of it self than any Rhetoricians eloquence.

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 15 Whosoever intendeth his care rather to find out words than matter, may bee holden for a verball Rhetorician, but no serious Orator.

1645 Some Observ. 3 An ill Rhetorician to a misaffected and ignorant People may make this seem very odious.

1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum Introd. 19 We must allow for shrinking in the Silk grograin Phrase of Rethoricians.

1731 E. Cooke Maryland Muse (ed. 3) 14 Grantham, a nat'ral Rhetorician, A Merchant, Tar, and Politician, Did try with Words, as smooth as Oil, If he could stubborn Ingram foil.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 475 Ale-drinking, burthen-carrying, fish-selling rhetoricians.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. ii. 170 No one would call Bourdaloue a rhetorician.

1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 20 Apr. 433/2 The finances of England are in the hands of a rhetorician, who, in place of acts, seeks to dazzle the people with fine promises.

1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. iii. 239 The task has been attempted by many men of real genius and eloquence as well as by only too many vulgar sentimentalists and self-conscious rhetoricians.

a1953 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 64 Exhibitionists,..theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies, balletomanes,..windbags.

2002 T. Nairn Pariah ii. 25 Were not both of them populists, glib rhetoricians and compromisers, with a taste for plebiscitary power?

3. With capital initial. In some English Roman Catholic schools, esp. Stonyhurst College: a scholar in the Rhetoric class (see rhetoric n.¹ 1d).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > Roman Catholic or Jesuit > specific form > pupil in

poet1674

rhetorician1676

grammarian1705

Syntaxian1705

philosopher1711

syntactician1774

poetician1895

figuration1904

1676 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1972) 63 60 Rhetoricians. Jo. Brockholes. Jo. Townly.

1716 N. Blundell Diary 3 May (1952) ix. 164 Mr Carroll being to leave, gave his schoolfellows the Returritions a treat.

1773 H. T. Blount Diary 17 Apr. in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1972) 63 354 Master John Bradshaw, Rhetorician, left the College, and returned to England.

1790 in Mem. Stonyhurst Coll. (1881) 30 Academical exhibition in which the new President was finely complimented by the Rhetoricians.

1809 in Edmundian (1948) Summer 9 The boys in the higher classes viz. Philosophers and Rhetoricians have separate rooms.

1901 G. Gruggen & J. Keating Stonyhurst viii. 139 The Philosophers and Rhetoricians, as such, have also ‘good days’, which they commonly spend at the sea-side.

1988 H. J. A. Sire Gentlemen Philosophers viii. 161 The law course was continued..and one student, A. Isola, followed it as a Rhetorician until 1919.

2009 www.saintmaryshall.com 12 May (O.E.D. Archive) The traditional Hodder v Rhetoric cricket match took place in customary style with Rhetoricians bedecked in suitable attire.

Compounds

General attributive.

ΚΠ

1645 J. Marsh Marsh his Mickle Monument 61 Rhetorician raylers that can prate, As much of thee as any man alive.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation iii. 140 Pyrrhonians..Boldly presum'd, with Rhetorician Pride, To hold of any Question either side.

1757 C. Arnold Poems Several Occasions 168 ‘May it please your Lairdship to admit my Plea—’ ‘Cease, cease, thy Prate, vain Rhetorician Slave.’

1828 J. Q. Adams Jrnl. 20 Mar. in Memoirs (1875) VII. 479 He returned answers of cold and high-wrought rhetorician eloquence.

1855 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 571/2 Asiatic never was Cicero, altho' he sometimes wore at the bottom of his rhetorician robe a flounce too many.

2001 B. Croke Count Marcellinus iii. 81 Exasperated by his rhetorician neighbour Zeno, he devised an elaborate simulation of an earthquake which shook his neighbour's floor.

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

单词	rhetorician
释义	rhetoriciann. Brit. /ˌrɛtəˈrɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛdəˈrɪʃən/ Forms: late Middle English rethoricion, late Middle English rethoricyen, late Middle English rethorisyen, late Middle English retorucion, late Middle English retricion, late Middle English retrycyan, late Middle English–1500s rethoricien, late Middle English–1500s rethorycian, late Middle English–1500s rethorycien, late Middle English–1600s rethorician, late Middle English–1600s retorician, late Middle English– rhetorician, 1500s rethoricyan, 1500s rethorisian, 1500s rethorycyen, 1500s rethorycyne, 1500s retrician, 1500s rhetoricien, 1500s–1600s rethoritian, 1500s–1600s rhethorician, 1500s–1600s rhetoritian, 1600s rhethoritian, 1700s returrition; also Scottish pre-1700 rethoriciane. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rethoricien. Etymology: < Middle French rethoricien, rethorician, retoricien, rhetoricien expert in rhetoric, teacher of rhetoric (c1370; French rhétoricien ) < rhétorique rhetoric n.¹ + -ien -ian suffix (compare -icien -ician suffix). Compare rhetoric n.², rhetor n., rhetorian n. 1. Chiefly Classical History. A professor or teacher of rhetoric; (also) a professional orator. Cf. rhetor n. 1, 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [noun] > teacher of rhetoric rhetoricianc1425 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 176 After þe maner of gramariens, Nor lyke þe stile of rethoricyens I toke nat on me þis story to translate. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 9 (MED) He happed to fynde a book þat Tullius Cicero mad, þe grete rhetorician of Rome. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 161 Victorius the rethoricion. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Gi They whiche do onely teache rhetorike..ought to be named rhetoriciens, declamatours, artificiall spekers (named in Greeke Logodedali) or any other name than oratours. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1 And the Rethorician, and Logitian, considering what in Nature will soonest proue and perswade, thereon giue artificial rules. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 148 The figure Imago of the vulgar Rhetoricians. 1674 S. Butler Hudibras (new ed.) i. i. 6 For all a Rhetoricians Rules Teach nothing but to name his Tools. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 231. ¶4 Rhetoricians have recommended it [sc. Modesty] to their Disciples as a Particular in their Art. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music vi. 137 In later Times it became a common Practice for Sophists and Rhetoricians to contend in Prose, at the Olympic Games, for the Crown of Glory. 1790 V. Knox Winter Evenings (ed. 2) II. 197 Eloquence of that kind, which the ancient rhetoricians denominated the epidictic. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. 239 Isocrates was a Rhetorician by profession: the framing of sentences, and turning of periods, was the great business of his long life. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. ii. 329 A curious contrast to the Cynic was the philosophic rhetorician. 1935 Greece & Rome 4 140 He was a rhetorician by profession. 1975 H. Bloom Map of Misreading ii. v. 103 Some modern rhetoricians regard metalepsis as being only an extended metaphor with a central term left out. 1994 30 Days in Church & in World No. 10. 59/2 He had been brought up in the values of Roman paganism by Ausonius, the most famous rhetorician of the period. 2. †a. A master of literary eloquence; a person who speaks eloquently or elegantly. 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) Prol. 57 (MED) Of thy golde dewe lat the lycour wete My dulled brest, that wyth thyn hony swete Sugrest tongis of rethoricyens. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 1564 (MED) Clerk with penne, or tunge off retrycyan..can noght telle halff her felycyte. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 185 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 547 Whan rethoriciens han doon ther besy peyn Fressh epistolis & lettris to endite. 1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. F4^v It is a thing incident vnto a rethoritian to be girding. ?c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (1910) iv. 17 O happie war the rethoriciane That with sueit wourdis wald lament it! b. A person who uses language in accordance with the theory and principles of rhetoric, or speaks in a manner typical of orators; esp. (depreciative) a public speaker who indulges in empty or overinflated rhetorical flourishes. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [noun] > one who uses rhetorical language rhetorica1382 declamatora1387 rhetorc1390 rhetoriana1393 declaimer?a1475 rhetorician1561 rhetoricaster1591 rhetorculist1607 declaimanta1763 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 16 When that rough..simplicitie doeth raise vp a greater reuerence of it self than any Rhetoricians eloquence. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 15 Whosoever intendeth his care rather to find out words than matter, may bee holden for a verball Rhetorician, but no serious Orator. 1645 Some Observ. 3 An ill Rhetorician to a misaffected and ignorant People may make this seem very odious. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum Introd. 19 We must allow for shrinking in the Silk grograin Phrase of Rethoricians. 1731 E. Cooke Maryland Muse (ed. 3) 14 Grantham, a nat'ral Rhetorician, A Merchant, Tar, and Politician, Did try with Words, as smooth as Oil, If he could stubborn Ingram foil. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 475 Ale-drinking, burthen-carrying, fish-selling rhetoricians. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. ii. 170 No one would call Bourdaloue a rhetorician. 1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 20 Apr. 433/2 The finances of England are in the hands of a rhetorician, who, in place of acts, seeks to dazzle the people with fine promises. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. iii. 239 The task has been attempted by many men of real genius and eloquence as well as by only too many vulgar sentimentalists and self-conscious rhetoricians. a1953 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 64 Exhibitionists,..theological rhetoricians, historical hoddy-doddies, balletomanes,..windbags. 2002 T. Nairn Pariah ii. 25 Were not both of them populists, glib rhetoricians and compromisers, with a taste for plebiscitary power? 3. With capital initial. In some English Roman Catholic schools, esp. Stonyhurst College: a scholar in the Rhetoric class (see rhetoric n.¹ 1d). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > Roman Catholic or Jesuit > specific form > pupil in poet1674 rhetorician1676 grammarian1705 Syntaxian1705 philosopher1711 syntactician1774 poetician1895 figuration1904 1676 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1972) 63 60 Rhetoricians. Jo. Brockholes. Jo. Townly. 1716 N. Blundell Diary 3 May (1952) ix. 164 Mr Carroll being to leave, gave his schoolfellows the Returritions a treat. 1773 H. T. Blount Diary 17 Apr. in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1972) 63 354 Master John Bradshaw, Rhetorician, left the College, and returned to England. 1790 in Mem. Stonyhurst Coll. (1881) 30 Academical exhibition in which the new President was finely complimented by the Rhetoricians. 1809 in Edmundian (1948) Summer 9 The boys in the higher classes viz. Philosophers and Rhetoricians have separate rooms. 1901 G. Gruggen & J. Keating Stonyhurst viii. 139 The Philosophers and Rhetoricians, as such, have also ‘good days’, which they commonly spend at the sea-side. 1988 H. J. A. Sire Gentlemen Philosophers viii. 161 The law course was continued..and one student, A. Isola, followed it as a Rhetorician until 1919. 2009 www.saintmaryshall.com 12 May (O.E.D. Archive) The traditional Hodder v Rhetoric cricket match took place in customary style with Rhetoricians bedecked in suitable attire. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1645 J. Marsh Marsh his Mickle Monument 61 Rhetorician raylers that can prate, As much of thee as any man alive. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation iii. 140 Pyrrhonians..Boldly presum'd, with Rhetorician Pride, To hold of any Question either side. 1757 C. Arnold Poems Several Occasions 168 ‘May it please your Lairdship to admit my Plea—’ ‘Cease, cease, thy Prate, vain Rhetorician Slave.’ 1828 J. Q. Adams Jrnl. 20 Mar. in Memoirs (1875) VII. 479 He returned answers of cold and high-wrought rhetorician eloquence. 1855 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 571/2 Asiatic never was Cicero, altho' he sometimes wore at the bottom of his rhetorician robe a flounce too many. 2001 B. Croke Count Marcellinus iii. 81 Exasperated by his rhetorician neighbour Zeno, he devised an elaborate simulation of an earthquake which shook his neighbour's floor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1425
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