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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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)
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)
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
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