demegoric

D2E1M3E1G2O1R1I1C3

adjective

Related to public speaking, especially as a style of rhetoric.

“The girl had a fear of anything demegoric.”

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivedemegoric (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelated to public speaking, especially as a style of rhetoric.

    The girl had a fear of anything demegoric.

    5 more examples

    The only evidence that appears to group encomium and invective into a demegoric genus, together with exhortation and dissuasion, is the common set of topics given at 1.4 NS 3.1 (CF. 10.1).

    1994, William Wall Fortenbaugh, David C. Mirhady, Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle, →ISBN, page 61

    Thus rhetorical theorists sometimes used demegoric rhetoric, somewhat inappropriately, to stand for deliberative as a whole; and though Aristotle recognized the use of deliberative rhetoric in private situations, in fact his account of deliberative focuses on demegoric almost exclusively.

    1996, Harvey Yunis -, Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens, →ISBN

    Moreover, he ridicules the Socratic theme of pathos when he accuses Socrates of ranting in a demegoric manner because he has managed to have Polus suffer [pathein] the same mishap [pathos] that Gorgias has suffered [pathein] before him when Socarates goaded him into the admission that the rhetorician has to teach justice [482c].

    2000, Eric Voegelin, Dante L. Germino, Order and History - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 85

    As philosophy developed its own branches from physics to logic, so did the art of rhetoric, giving rise to demegoric speaking before the assembly, dicanic speaking in the court room, and epideictic or ceremonial addresses for special occasions.

    2002, Kōnstantinos Iōannou Voudourēs, Takis Poulakos, The philosophy of communication, →ISBN, page 19

    The values used for the encomium are precisely the predicates that characterise the demegoric genre (that which is fair, legal, useful, etc.).

    2010, Ian Worthington, A Companion to Greek Rhetoric, →ISBN, page 93
Cite this entry
APA

demegoric. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/demegoric

MLA

“demegoric.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/demegoric. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “demegoric,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/demegoric.

Source: demegoric on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.