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epideictic

/ ˌɛpɪˈdaɪktɪk /

adjective

  1. designed to display something, esp the skill of the speaker in rhetoric Alsoepidicticˌɛpɪˈdɪktɪk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of epideictic1

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

There is something p. xivof “hard brilliance” in Praed: he writes for effect, he is epideictic.

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