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verbrhetorize (third-person singular simple present rhetorizes, present participle rhetorizing, simple past and past participle rhetorized)
present singular third person rhetorizes · participle present rhetorizing · participle past rhetorized · past rhetorized
- transitiveTo represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
As no less was that before his book against the Brownists , to write a letter to a Prosopopeia , a certain rhetorized woman whoin he calls mother , and complains of some that laid whoredom to her charge
1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC - intransitiveTo use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.
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