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A person skilled in the art or practice of logical discussion; a person skilled in the idioms and form of a language.

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  • She was a lucid dialectician, historian, novelist, & playwright.
  • And him who knows how to ask and answer you would call a dialectician?
  • SOCRATES: And him who knows how to ask and answer you would call a dialectician?
  • He is the poet or maker of words, as in civilised ages the dialectician is the definer or distinguisher of them.
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