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rhetorise

rhetorise is the alternative form of rhetorize.

Meaning of rhetorize

Verb

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.
    • 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 charge1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.

Forms of rhetorise

third-person singular presentrhetorises
present participlerhetorising
past participlerhetorised
pastrhetorised

Questions about rhetorise

What is rhetorise the alternative form of?
Rhetorise is the alternative form of rhetorize.

Words near rhetorise in the dictionary

  1. rhetoricities
  2. rhetoricity
  3. rhetorick
  4. rhetoricks
  5. rhetorics
  6. rhetorise
  7. rhetorised
  8. rhetorises
  9. rhetorising
  10. rhetoritian
  11. rhetoritians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rhetorise (page history and authors); rhetorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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