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epideictic
(redirected from Epideixis)

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epideictic [ˌɛpɪˈdaɪktɪk]
adj
(Literature / Rhetoric) designed to display something, esp the skill of the speaker in rhetoric Also epidictic [ˌɛpɪˈdɪktɪk]
[from Greek epideiktikos, from epideiknunai to display, show off, from deiknunai to show]
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Adj.1.epideictic - designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations"
epideictical
demonstrative - given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an affectionate and demonstrative family"
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The rhetoric of this kind of official epideixis, however, is vexed and doubtless expresses other motives.
Queen Katherine and the secret of Lydgate's Temple of Glas by Mitchell, J. Allan / Medium Aevum
Goldhill gives a useful account of Greek terms for display and spectacle (agon, epideixis, schema, and theoria), and it is clear that his interest is not in performance studies (he swiftly dismisses Turner, Schechner, and Blau for their lack of historicity) but in a neo-Foucauldian criticism of Athenian culture as a coherent regime.
Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne, eds. Performance Culture and ... by Dunn, Francis / Comparative Drama
 
 
 
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