Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
RHETORICIAN
orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier
(noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rhetorician (plural rhetoricians)
An expert or student of rhetoric.
An orator or eloquent public speaker.
Source: Wiktionary
Rhet`o*ri"cian, n. Etym: [Cf. F. rhétoricien.]
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.
Rhet`o*ri"cian, a.
Definition: Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride." Blackmore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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