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Definitionn. a person who delivers a speech or oration
Last update: October 9, 2015
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HERMAGORAS, of Temnos, Greek rhetorician of the Rhodian school and teacher of oratory in Rome, flourished during the first half of the 1st century B.C. He obtained a great reputation among a certain section and founded a special school, the members of which called themselves Hermagorei. [Please select]
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He hoped to startle her, the old rhetorician; but he failed. [Please select]
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But he was not a rhetorician, as Burke was, and hence confined himself to acts, and not to words. [Please select]
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The more formidable accuser was Meletus,--a poet and a rhetorician, who had been irritated by Socrates' terrible cross-examinations. [Please select]
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All his partisans were hunted out, and underwent the same fate, and among others Diophanes the rhetorician. [Please select]
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The manners are clumsy and inferior; the hand of the rhetorician is apparent at every turn. [Please select]
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The rhetorician cannot put the judge or juror in possession of all the facts which prove an act of violence, but he may truly persuade them of the commission of such an act. [Please select]
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Rufus Choate, himself a consummate rhetorician, sneered at those "glittering generalities," and countless college-bred men, some of them occupying the highest positions, have echoed the sneer. [Please select]
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