1. One who teaches the art of rhetoric, or the principles and rules of correct and elegant speaking.
The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, who had young auditors, lived till they were a hundred years old.
2. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
3. An orator. [Less proper.]
RHETORI'CIAN, a. [See The noun.] Suiting a master of rhetoric. [Not in use.]