epideictic

British  

/ ˌɛpɪˈdaɪktɪk /

adjective

1. Also: epidictic.  designed to display something, esp the skill of the speaker in rhetoric

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Etymology

Origin of epideictic

C18: from Greek epideiktikos, from epideiknunai to display, show off, from deiknunai to show

Example Sentences

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 Brittain, Alfred

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

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 Mackail, J. W. (John William)

Many again are to be found among the miscellaneous section of epideictic epigrams.

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)