RHETORCULIST NOUN a petty or mediocre orator ...1607 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin rhetorculus (mediocre orator), from Latin rhētor (rhetor n. a teacher or professor of rhetoric) + -culus + -ist FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1607 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "... And therefore it pleaseth God, to let them passe through the fire, either of some reproachful Shemei (for the tong is a fire, saith S. Iac. 5. 6.) to reuile their persons: or some vnnaturall Cham, to reueale their turpitudes, or some Yelping Rhetorculists, to crie them downe into Premuniries..." From: A Brand. Titio erepta. On the fift day of Nouember last, before the Honourable Lordes of his Maiesties Priuie Councell, and the graue iudges of the law, &c. this Sermon Preached by the Reuerend Father in Christ, William, Lord Bishoppe of Rochester. - William Barlow
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