epideictic
Britishadjective
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Also: epidictic. designed to display something, esp the skill of the speaker in rhetoric
Etymology
Origin of epideictic
C18: from Greek epideiktikos, from epideiknunai to display, show off, from deiknunai to show
Example Sentences
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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