The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young
auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old.
Bacon.
3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine
eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.
Rhet`o*ri"cian, a. Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician
pride." Blackmore.
Rhet"o*rize (rt"*rz), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rhetorized (- rzd); p. pr. &
vb. n. Rhetorizing (- r`zng).] To play the orator. Colgrave.
Rhet"o*rize, v. t. To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by
personification. Milton.
||Rhe"um (r"m), n. [NL., from L. Rha the river Volga, on the banks of
||which it grows. See Rhubarb.] (Bot.) A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.
Rheum (rm), n. [OF. reume, rheume, F. rhume a cold,, L. rheuma rheum,
from Gr. &?;&?;&?;, fr. "rei^n to flow, akin to E. stream. See Stream,
n., and cf. Hemorrhoids.] (Med.) A serous or mucous discharge,
especially one from the eves or nose.