rhetorician

rhetorician
    n 1: a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: {orator},
         {speechmaker}, {rhetorician}, {public speaker},
         {speechifier}]
    

Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, n. [Cf. F. rh['e]toricien.]
   1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
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            The understanding is that by which a man becomes a
            mere logician and a mere rhetorician. --F. W.
                                                  Robertson.
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   2. A teacher of rhetoric.
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            The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever
            had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred
            years old.                            --Bacon.
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   3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without
      genuine eloquence; a declaimer. --Macaulay.
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Rhetorician \Rhet`o*ri"cian\, a.
   Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride."
   --Blackmore.
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26 Moby Thesaurus words for "rhetorician":
      Cicero, Demosthenes, Gongorist, Marinist, William Jennings Bryan,
      Winston Churchill, elocutionist, euphuist, fine writer, mannerist,
      master of style, orator, pedant, phrasemaker, phraseman,
      phrasemonger, platform orator, public speaker, rhetor,
      soapbox orator, soapboxer, spellbinder, stump orator, stylist,
      teacher of rhetoric, wordspinner