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

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)

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)

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

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