epideictic

adjective

ep·​i·​deic·​tic

¦epə¦dīktik

: designed primarily for rhetorical effect : demonstrative

epideictic style of writing

the Indian speeches are … more of the nature of the forensic and, occasionally, epideictic or panegyric, than of deliberative oratory

—H. J. C. Grierson

—used especially of ceremonial orations of praise or blame

Word History

Etymology

Greek epideiktikos, from (assumed) Greek epideiktos (verbal of Greek epideiknynai to exhibit, show off, display, from epi- + deiknynai to show) + Greek -ikos -ic

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