rhetorician

[ ret-uh-rish-uh n ]

/ ˌrɛt əˈrɪʃ ən /

an expert in the art of rhetoric.

a person who teaches rhetoric.

a person who writes or speaks in an elaborate or exaggerated style.

Origin of rhetorician

1375–1425; late Middle English rethoricien < Middle French rethorique rhetoric + -ien -ian

He obtained his freedom, and acquired celebrity as a rhetorician and historian.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV |Aubrey Stewart
One may be a great orator, according to the usual acceptation of the term "great," and yet be only a declaimer and a rhetorician.

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson |Thomas Jefferson
"And you did not even see him at his best," exclaimed Favorinus, the Gaul, the sophist and rhetorician.

The Emperor, Complete |Georg Ebers
They persuaded him for a moment that phrases were politics, and that a rhetorician was a statesman.

History of the Girondists, Volume I |Alphonse de Lamartine

He charged Gorgias203 the rhetorician with leading the young man to pleasure and drinking, and banished him from his society.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV |Aubrey Stewart

rhetorician

/ (ˌrɛtəˈrɪʃən) /

a teacher of the art of rhetoric

a stylish or eloquent writer or speaker

a person whose speech is pompous or extravagant