单词 | rhetorize |
释义 | rhetorizev. 1. a. intransitive. To speak or write in a rhetorical manner, or in accordance with the principles of rhetoric. Cf. rhetoricize v. 1. Now chiefly Literary Criticism. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > use rhetorical language rhetorize?1594 rhetoricate1617 rhetoricize1676 ?1594 M. Drayton Peirs Gaueston sig. C2 With such method could I rhetorize, My musick plaied the measures to his loue. 1608 Dispute Question of Kneeling 65 The Ancient Fathers have..ben pleased thus to rhetorise, in commendation of the Sacrament. 1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 206 Gregory Nazianzen hath taught Saint Hierome also how to Rhetorize. 1667 Tydings from Rome 24 I do not rhetorize and fawn to draw affection. a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1764) I. i. 3/1 Thus he rhetorizes and flourishes exceedingly, and persuades with the greatest motives. 1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 121 After having rhetorized in praise of sacred music. 1884 H. D. Traill Coleridge iv. 82 One would have expected that Coleridge's instincts would have led him to rhetorise too much in his diction. 1968 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 9 Apr. 4/2 He went there to emphasize, not to rhetorize. 2006 C. Altieri Art 20th-cent. Amer. Poetry iii. 87 Having this in the background makes the short version a critique of the temptation to rhetorize. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] > set forth in ornate language windc1315 gild1340 embroidera1610 rhetorize1611 to have swallowed a (or the) dictionary1829 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rhetoriquer, to rhetorize it, play the Rhetorician. 1647 R. Grosse Royalty & Loyalty i. 14 Tertullian in his Apologie Rhetorizes it thus. 2. a. transitive. To express in rhetorical language; to make rhetorical in form or style. Cf. rhetoricize v. 2.In quot. 1702: to beguile with rhetorical language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] > make rhetorical rhetorize1702 rhetoricize1855 1702 J. Harris Leighton-Stone-Air 30 With chast Vertus well-pen'd Praxis, drest Soft and Perswasive to allure the Breast, Ravish and Rhetorize the Soul to Rest. 1840 tr. O. F. Gruppe in Foreign Q. Rev. 24 246 Ion has already rhetorized the whole rant. 1886 Proc. 1st Michigan Legislative Reunion 39 Figures rhetorized are more fitting than figures statistized. 1959 Montana 9 44/1 [The sketch] by John J...was contributed by ‘Dr. Kilpatrick, of Trinity, Louisiana’, who evidently rhetorized it somewhat. 2008 J. Küpper in S. G. Nichols et al. Rethinking Medieval Senses vii. 129 The questions which Martínez uses to rhetorize his argument point to the dead end that was mentioned already. b. transitive. With clause or direct speech as object: to say or write in rhetorical language. ΚΠ 1915 G. L. de St. M. Wilson Story of Napoleon's Death-mask i. 72 Bégin thusly rhetorized:—‘He..must have borne in his countenance the speaking image of his soul's quietude.’ 1935 Philosophy 10 54 It is easy to rhetorize that even for man..the world is not bad without qualification. 2000 N. Rapport & J. Overing Social & Cultural Anthropol. iv. 256 ‘What is the “social condition” that has nothing to do with an individual condition?’, F.R. Leavis once rhetorized. Derivatives ˈrhetorized adj. rare treated in terms of or in relation to rhetoric. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > rhetorical > addressed rhetorically rhetorized1642 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 8 To write a Letter to a prosopopæa, a certain rhetoriz'd woman whom he calls mother. 1973 Polit. Theory 1 33 I shall postpone consideration of the somewhat too easily rhetorized situations which exist when this is not the case. 1996 J. Lennard in Poetry Handbk. viii. 152 A principal consequence of such intertextuality is often to make readers conscious of the rhetorized, self-dramatizing aspects of a work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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