rhetorize

rhetorize (third-person singular simple present rhetorizes, present participle rhetorizing, simple past and past participle rhetorized)

1. (transitive) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
   • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:

     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

2. (intransitive) To use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.

• “rhetorize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• theorizer