EPIDEICTIC


Meaning of EPIDEICTIC in English

|epə|dīktik adjective

Etymology: Greek epideiktikos, from (assumed) Greek epideiktos (verbal of Greek epideiknynai to exhibit, show off, display, from epi- + deiknynai to show) + Greek -ikos -ic — more at diction

: designed primarily for rhetorical effect : demonstrative

epideictic style of writing

the Indian speeches are … more of the nature of the forensic and, occasionally, epideictic or panegyric, than of deliberative oratory — H.J.C.Grierson

— used especially of ceremonial orations of praise or blame

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