epideictic

adjective
ep·​i·​deic·​tic | \ ¦epə¦dīktik\

Definition of epideictic

: designed primarily for rhetorical effect : demonstrative epideictic style of writing the Indian speeches are … more of the nature of the forensic and, occasionally, epideictic or panegyric, than of deliberative oratory— H. J. C. Grierson used especially of ceremonial orations of praise or blame

History and Etymology for epideictic

Greek epideiktikos, from (assumed) Greek epideiktos (verbal of Greek epideiknynai to exhibit, show off, display, from epi- + deiknynai to show) + Greek -ikos -ic

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