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Epideictic

Adjective

ep=i=deic=tic

WORDNET DICTIONARY

epideictic(s = adj.all) epideictical - designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations"

Epideictic, a. [Gr. , fr. to show forth, display; 'epi` + to show. Cf. Epidictic.].

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

Epideictic, adj. meant for effect or display, esp. in speaking.

Etymology

Gk epideiktikos (as EPI-, deiknumi show)

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