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rhetic

rhetic adjective: of or pertaining to a rheme.

Adjective

rhetic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a rheme.
    • This act we may call a rhetic act, and the utterance which it is the act of uttering a rheme. - "How To Do Things With Words" (1962) by J.L. Austin (OUP paperback edition, 93)

Origin of rhetic

Via Ancient Greek ῥῆμα (rhêma, “rheme”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-.

Questions about rhetic

What does rhetic mean?
Rhetic means of or pertaining to a rheme.
What part of speech is rhetic?
Rhetic is an adjective.

Words near rhetic in the dictionary

  1. rhesusized
  2. rhesusizes
  3. rhesusizing
  4. rhet.
  5. Rhetian
  6. rhetic
  7. rhetizite
  8. Rheto-Romance
  9. Rheto-Romanic
  10. rhetographical
  11. rhetographies

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