rhetoric
31Rhetoric — See Humanism …
32Rhetoric — The art of using language so as to persuade or influence others; a crucial part of the *trivium. A set of rules was observed by either speaker or writer to achieve effective and persuasive expression. Cf. Rhetor …
33RHETORIC — the science or art of persuasive or effective speech, written as well as spoken, and that both in theory and practice was cultivated to great perfection among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and to some extent in the Middle Ages and later, but… …
34rhetoric — The art of persuasion by public speaking. This was studied intensively in the Hellenistic and Roman world, and the gospels and the epistles of Paul reflect some of the techniques that had to be mastered. Amongst the teaching methods of Jesus, his …
35rhetoric — (khitaba) See logic; prophecy …
36rhetoric — [14] In ancient Greece, a rhétōr was a ‘public speaker’, an ‘orator’. The word went back to a prehistoric Indo European base *wer ‘speak, say’, which also produced English verb and word. From it was derived the adjective 425 rickshaw rhētorikós,… …
37Rhetoric — See Education …
38rhetoric — rhet·o·ric || retÉ™rɪk n. study of the effective use of language; art of speaking and writing effectively; oratory, study of language as a means of persuasion; use of bombastic language, use of unnecessarily florid language …
39rhetoric — n. 1. Art of composition, art of discourse. 2. Oratory, elocution, eloquence, science of oratory. 3. Declamation, artificial eloquence. 4. Persuasion, attraction, allurement, charm …
40rhetoric — n 1. eloquence, power of speech, appeal, forcefulness, expressiveness, cogency; elocution, diction, articulation, enunciation, intonation, vocalization, address, delivery; command of words, way with words, Inf. gift of gab, Archaic. facundity;… …