Associations to the word «Epideictic»
Noun
- Rhetoric
- Oration
- Oratory
- Aristotle
- Orator
- Genre
- Persuasion
- Praise
- Discourse
- Ce
- Speech
- Plato
- Treatise
- Funeral
- Ritual
- Audience
- Virtue
- Display
- Topic
- Occasion
- Address
- Argument
- Arrangement
- Judgment
- Element
- Past
- Category
- Value
- Style
- Example
- Or
- Chapter
- Concern
- Present
- Kind
- Form
- Situation
- Type
- Culture
- Text
- Writing
- Character
- See
- Page
- Festival
- Sense
- Practice
- Century
- Action
- Fact
- Power
- Term
Adjective
Adverb
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Wiktionary
EPIDEICTIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of funerals and other formal events. One of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined by Aristotle.
Dictionary definition
EPIDEICTIC, adjective. Designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations".
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.