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Epideictic (gcide) | Epideictic \Ep`i*deic"tic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to show forth,
display; 'epi` + ? to show. Cf. Epidictic.]
Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the
Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification,
seeks to persuade. Epidemic |
epideictic (wn) | epideictic
adj 1: designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic
orations" [syn: epideictic, epideictical] |
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epideictic (wn) | epideictic
adj 1: designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic
orations" [syn: epideictic, epideictical] |
epideictic oratory (wn) | epideictic oratory
n 1: a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or
group of people; "Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians
killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of
epideictic oratory" |
epideictical (wn) | epideictical
adj 1: designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic
orations" [syn: epideictic, epideictical] |
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