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Definition of epideictic in English: epideicticadjective ˌɛpɪˈdʌɪktɪkˌɛpɪˈdeɪktɪkˌɛpəˈdaɪktɪk formal Characterized by or designed to display rhetorical or oratorical skill. 〈正式〉富于词藻的；意在表现词藻技巧的 Example sentencesExamples - The traditional approach to this difficulty is to dismiss epideictic oratory as irrelevant and gratuitous display.
- Overall, epideictic rhetoric may address policy or value issues, can issue blame as well as praise, and bears a close conceptual relationship with song.
- He argues that epideictic rhetoric with its traditional concern with the noble provides the model from which a contemporary reasoning about ends could proceed.
- On the other hand, epideictic rhetoric implies that tradition or social standing authorizes the rhetor to locate the object of praise in the criteria of excellence.
- Nonetheless, epideictic rhetoric may have political implications.
Synonyms impressive, imposing, majestic, extravagant, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, lofty, rotund, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, oratorical, rhetorical, turgid, flowery, florid, declamatory, ciceronian
OriginLate 18th century: from Greek epideiktikos (based on deiknunai 'to show'). Definition of epideictic in US English: epideicticadjectiveˌepəˈdīktikˌɛpəˈdaɪktɪk formal Characterized by or designed to display rhetorical or oratorical skill. 〈正式〉富于词藻的；意在表现词藻技巧的 Example sentencesExamples - On the other hand, epideictic rhetoric implies that tradition or social standing authorizes the rhetor to locate the object of praise in the criteria of excellence.
- The traditional approach to this difficulty is to dismiss epideictic oratory as irrelevant and gratuitous display.
- Nonetheless, epideictic rhetoric may have political implications.
- He argues that epideictic rhetoric with its traditional concern with the noble provides the model from which a contemporary reasoning about ends could proceed.
- Overall, epideictic rhetoric may address policy or value issues, can issue blame as well as praise, and bears a close conceptual relationship with song.
Synonyms impressive, imposing, majestic, extravagant, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, lofty, rotund, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, oratorical, rhetorical, turgid, flowery, florid, declamatory, ciceronian
OriginLate 18th century: from Greek epideiktikos (based on deiknunai ‘to show’). |