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They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense.

M. Arnold.

-- Rhe*tor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Rhe*tor"ic*al*ness, n.

Rhe*tor"i*cate (?), v. i. [L. rhetoricari. See Rhetoric.] To play the orator. [Obs.] South.

Rhe*tor`i*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. rhétorication.] Rhetorical amplification. [Obs.] Waterland.

Rhet`o*ri"cian (?), n. [Cf. F. rhétoricien.] 1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.

The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician.

F. W. Robertson.

2. A teacher of rhetoric.

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.

I have a rheum in mine eyes too.

Shak.

Salt rheum. (Med.) See Salt rheum, in the Vocab.

Rheu*mat"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; subject to a discharge or flux: cf. L. rheumaticus, F. rhumatique. See Rheum, Rheumatism.] 1. Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic. [Obs.]

2. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day.

That rheumatic diseases do abound.

Shak.

Rheu*mat"ic, n. One affected with rheumatism.

Rheu"ma*tism (?), n. [L. rheumatismus rheum, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;, fr.&?;&?;&?; to have or suffer from a flux, fr. &?;&?;&?; rheum: cf. F. rheumatisme. See 2d Rheum.] (Med.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.

Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. -- Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.

Rheu`ma*tis"mal (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism.