Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rhetorical

Rhetorical , adjective

[Latin rhetoricus, Greek {not transcribed}. See Rhetoric.]

Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense. — M. Arnold