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Quotation dates: 1499-1535
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Rethory, -orie, n. Also: ret-, rith- and -orye. [Late L. *rethoria, *rhetoria, f. the Gk.] = Rethorik n. 1 and 2.a. a1500 Bk. Chess 1669.
Of rethorye expert suld he beb. a1500 Henr. Fab. 3 (Makc.).
Thar polit termys of sueit rethory [Bann. retory] Ar rycht plesand one to the eyr of man a1500 Ib. 38 (see Rethorik n. 2).
Rethory a1500 Id. Test. Cress. 240.
Rethorie c1500-c1512 Dunb. (O.U.P.) 203/10.
The eloquence off ornat rethorye a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 500.
Rymis thou of me, of rethory the rose?1531 Bell. Boece (M) I 16.(b) 1535 Stewart 5308.
Ȝour facund fleching, and ȝour wordis sueit Of rithorie
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