rethor

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rethore

Etymology

Compare French rhéteur and English rhetor.

Noun

rethor

1. 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.