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Rethoricall, -ycall, adj. Also: rhetor-. [e.m.E. rhetorical (1476), f. L. rhētoricus Rethorik adj.] a. Dealing with questions involving rhetoric. b. Of expressions or style: Elegant. c. Eloquent. d. transf. —a. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 835.
Ȝone is, quod thay, the court rethoricall a1554 Misc. Bann. C. III 83.
Rude and onlernit but science rethoricall but plantifull eloquence —b. 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 5.
The poetis auld, … In breue subtell termes rethorycall, Off euerilke mater … Haith done indyte 1567 Sat. P. iii 140.
Than sall I wryte in prettie poetrie, In Latine leid, in style rethoricall —c. c1550 Lynd. Test. Meldrum 78.
Mak offering of my toung rhetoricall Till Mercurius —d. c1550-c1580 Art of Music 46.
That musicianis amang the plesand plantis of concordance may find and gadder dywers pwinctis rethoricall to the decoring of harmony
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