rhetorician Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who delivers a speech or oration
    orator; public speaker; speechmaker; speechifier.

WordNet

Rhet`o*ri"cian noun
Etymology
Cf. F. rhétoricien.
Definitions
  1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
    The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson.
  2. A teacher of rhetoric.
    The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old. Bacon.
  3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.
Rhet`o*ri"cian adjective
Definitions
  1. Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride." Blackmore.

Webster 1913