rethor
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare French rhéteur and English rhetor.
Noun
rethor
- a rhetorician; a careful writer
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- It muste be a rethor excellent
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
- rhetoryke
References
- “rethor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.