Epideictic

adjective

/ˌɛpɪˈdaɪktɪk/

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.adjectiveOf 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.

Synonyms

elocutionary epiplectic epistylar eurydicean epicletic eidological oratorical epicyclical ecthetic rhetological epictetan elocutory

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