'Epideictic' definitions:
Definition of 'epideictic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations" [syn: epideictic, epideictical]
Definition of 'Epideictic'
From: 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