Rhetoric: alternatives and connections

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

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Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression.

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A contrivance for clapping in theaters.

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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

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A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

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To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation…

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A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

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That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

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An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.

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Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.

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One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.

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One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.

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The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.

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The state or quality of being grandiose,

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The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

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The quality of being ornate.

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Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

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