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Definition of Epideictic
1. Adjective. Designed primarily for rhetorical display. "Epideictic orations"
Definition of Epideictic
1. a. Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; - - applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
Definition of Epideictic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of funerals and other formal events. One of the three branches, or "species" (eid?), of rhetoric as outlined by Aristotle. ¹
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