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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to rhetoric.
  2. adj. Characterized by overelaborate or bombastic rhetoric.
  3. adj. Used for persuasive effect: a speech punctuated by rhetorical pauses.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing rhetoric; oratorical: as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
  2. In some colleges in the United States, rhetorical exercises (declamations, etc.) held publicly before all the students of the college.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Part of or similar to rhetoric, which is the use of language as a means to persuade.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to rhetoric
  2. adj. given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought

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