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epideictic
/ ˌɛpɪˈdaɪktɪk /
adjective
- designed to display something, esp the skill of the speaker in rhetoric Alsoepidicticˌɛpɪˈdɪktɪk
Word History and Origins
Origin of epideictic1
Example Sentences
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.
The very title, Alexiad suggests rather an epos--a poem in prose--than a serious historical work, and emphasizes its epideictic tendency.
My felicitations, Atticus, on your welding of dirge and exhortation into one epideictic oration!
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.
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.
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