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1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson. 2. A teacher of rhetoric. The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had

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1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician. F. W. Robertson. 2. A teacher of rhetoric. The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old. Bacon. 3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.

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• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• VERSABLENESS
  Versability.
• RHETORICIAN
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• VERS DE SOCIETE
  See SOCIETY
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• VERST
  A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
• VERSAL
  Universal. Shak.
• VERSUTE
  Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• VERSOR
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• RHETORICATION
  Rhetorical amplification. Waterland.
• VERSANT
  Familiar; conversant. Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith.
• UNDERSTAND
  understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• VERSATILITY
  The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.
• UNDERSTANDING
  Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
• VERSABLE
  Capable of being turned.
• LOGICIAN
  A person skilled in logic. Bacon. Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• UNIVERSITY
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• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• OVERSHOT
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• ESTOVERS
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• REVERSION
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• DIVERS
  directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various;
• CONTROVERSAL
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• TERGIVERSATOR
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• SCHOOL-TEACHER
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  A reversing.
• CONVERSIVE
  1. Capable of being converted or changed. 2. Ready to converse; social. Feltham.
• AVERSATION
  A turning from with dislike; aversion. Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor.
• OVERSHOOT
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