Rhet′o‐ri″cian (?), n. [Cf. F. rhétoricien.] 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.