Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See epidictic, epidictical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined by Aristotle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective designed primarily for rhetorical display
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Examples
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By writing in epideictic's distinctively biographical but general terms, she can catch up in her apostrophes a Byron, a Hume,
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001
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In completing my own offering on scepticism as a rhetorical-poetical "war of ideas," I turn to the close grappling between Byron and Hemans over the enthymeme, or rhetorical syllogism, which like the epideictic is a legacy of the classical Sophism. [
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001
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Again, many of the so-called epideictic epigrams are little more than stories told shortly in elegiac verse, much like the stories in Ovid's
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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Establishing orthodoxy: The letters of St. Ignatius as epideictic rhetoric.
American Rhetoric - Christian Rhetoric Scholarly Reference Guide 2010
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Note 48: Another of the progymnasmata exercises, the encomium offered "basic training" for epideictic rhetoric, although it was also useful in deliberative and forensic oratory.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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While learning the rudiments of epideictic presentation in a "parrot-like" manner, a student committed exemplary passages of poetry and literature to memory.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Additionally, the encomia inscribed in the Urbino portraits provided exemplary ingredients for epideictic oration. 48 19
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Doctorow later spoofed the epideictic mode in The Book of Daniel.
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Doctorow later spoofed the epideictic mode in The Book of Daniel.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Tony Blair's epideictic performance at the Labour Party conference last year won admiration even from his foes, but by and large the digital age is cool to rhetoric and, as the enthronement of the blogger suggests, prizes incoherent impulse over the Ciceronian arts of the exordium and the peroration.
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