rhetorication

English

Etymology

Compare French rhétorication.

Noun

rhetorication (countable and uncountable, plural rhetorications)

1. (obsolete) rhetorical amplification
   • 1734, Daniel Waterland, The Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity Asserted:

     It can scarcely be conceived, that any sensible men should seriously advance such odd fancies, or that they mean any thing more by them than rhetorication and flourish.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rhetorication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)