D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Epideictic

· Ep·i·deic·tic · IPA /ˌɛpɪˈdaɪktɪk/
01 a. Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
  1. 1.
    Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.