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单词 rhetoricly
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rhetoriclyadv.

Forms: late Middle English retoriquely, 1500s rethorikly.
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: rhetoric adj., -ly suffix2; rhetorically adv.
Etymology: Either < rhetoric adj. + -ly suffix2, or a variant of rhetorically adv. with loss of the fourth syllable.
Obsolete.
In accordance with the principles of rhetoric; elegantly; eloquently.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adverb]
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rhetoricly1481
elegantlya1492
facundiously1509
comptly1611
fine1735
posh1957
1481 tr. Cicero De Senectute (Caxton) sig. e7 The poet Ennius callys him his swete hony, by cause that his boke was so retoriquely made.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) vii (MED) He [sc. Boethius] takith his penance, And of his vertew maid it suffisance..Enditing in his fair Latyne tong, So full of fruyte and rethorikly pykit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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