Rhetorician

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Rhetorician

(rhetor). (1) In ancient Greece and Rome, an orator, especially one whose oratory was not so much practical as for show. Rhetoricians included teachers and students at schools of rhetoric.

(2) In Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries, a pupil in the third of five classes at a religious seminary. The five classes were infimum (that is, primary grade), grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, and theology.

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