epideictic
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of epideictic
C18: from Greek epideiktikos, from epideiknunai to display, show off, from deiknunai to show
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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
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 J. W. (John William) Mackail
Again, many of the so-called epideictic epigrams are little more than stories told shortly in elegiac verse, much like the stories in Ovid's Fasti.
From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. (John William) Mackail
My felicitations, Atticus, on your welding of dirge and exhortation into one epideictic oration!
From Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
The very title, Alexiad suggests rather an epos--a poem in prose--than a serious historical work, and emphasizes its epideictic tendency.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
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