epideictic
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of epideictic
C18: from Greek epideiktikos, from epideiknunai to display, show off, from deiknunai to show
Example Sentences
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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.
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The very title, Alexiad suggests rather an epos--a poem in prose--than a serious historical work, and emphasizes its epideictic tendency.
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My felicitations, Atticus, on your welding of dirge and exhortation into one epideictic oration!
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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.
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Most of them are epideictic; a good many are on works of art and literature; there are some very beautiful epitaphs.
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