epideictic
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of epideictic
C18: from Greek epideiktikos, from epideiknunai to display, show off, from deiknunai to show
Vocabulary lists containing epideictic
Example Sentences
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This fragment describes the treatment of Gaza and its inhabitants by Alexander after its conquest, but it is possible that it is only part of an epideictic or show-speech, not of an historical work.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
The epideictic orators became less orators and more poets, and the poets cultivated less the characteristic vividness and movement of poetic than those turns of style which began in oratory.
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen
It would be possible to follow the old divisions of the Palatine Anthology with little change but for the epideictic section.
From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
My felicitations, Atticus, on your welding of dirge and exhortation into one epideictic oration!
From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)
Most of them are epideictic; a good many are on works of art and literature; there are some very beautiful epitaphs.
From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
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