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epideictic

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἐπιδεικτικός

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Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἐπιδεικτικός
English todayepideictic

From Ancient Greek ἐπιδεικτικός (epideiktikós), from ἐπιδείκνυμι (epideíknumi, “to display, exhibit”), from ἐπι- (epi-) + δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to show”).

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