Rhetoric vs Ochlagogue - What's the difference?
rhetoric | ochlagogue |
The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
(rare) A manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.
* 1931 : Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, and Owen Seaman, Punch ,
As nouns the difference between rhetoric and ochlagogue
is that rhetoric is the art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade while ochlagogue is (rare) a manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.As an adjective rhetoric
is .rhetoric
English
(wikipedia rhetoric)Alternative forms
* rhetorick (obsolete)Adjective
Noun
- It’s only so much rhetoric .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "rhetoric": political, legal, visual, classical, ancient, violent, empty, inflammatory, hateful, heated, fiery, vitriolic, angry, overheated, extreme.Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* rhetorical * rhetoricianSee also
* preterition *Anagrams
*ochlagogue
English
Noun
(en noun)page 310(Punch Publications Ltd.)
- Ochlagogue ! What a name for an Irish horse! EVOK.