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epideictic

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/ 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

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