epideictic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite designed primarily for rhetorical display
    epideictical.
    • epideictic orations

WordNet

Ep`i*deic"tic adjective
Etymology
Gr. , fr. to show forth, display; + to show. Cf. Epidictic.
Definitions
  1. Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

Webster 1913