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ep·i·deic·tic | \ ¦epə¦dīktik \
Definition of epideictic
: 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
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