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Epideictic

Ep`i*deic"tic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to show forth, display; 'epi` + ? to show. Cf. Epidictic.] Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
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epideictic

adjective
designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations" 
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