rhetorize

English

Verb

rhetorize (third-person singular simple present rhetorizes, present participle rhetorizing, simple past and past participle rhetorized)

  1. (transitive) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
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  2. (intransitive) To use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rhetorize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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