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EPIDEICTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does epideictic mean?
• EPIDEICTIC (adjective)
The adjective EPIDEICTIC has 1 sense:
1. designed primarily for rhetorical display
Familiarity information: EPIDEICTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Designed primarily for rhetorical display
Synonyms:
epideictic; epideictical
Context example:
epideictic orations
Similar:
demonstrative (given to or marked by the open expression of emotion)
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