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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EPIDEICTIC

Ep `i *deic "tic, a. Etym: [Gr. Epidictic.]

Defn: Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

New American Oxford Dictionary

epideictic

ep i deic tic |ˌepiˈdīktik ˌɛpəˈdaɪktɪk | ▶adjective formal characterized by or designed to display rhetorical or oratorical skill. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Greek epideiktikos (based on deiknunai ‘to show ’).

Oxford Dictionary

epideictic

epideictic |ˌɛpɪˈdeɪktɪk, -ˈdʌɪktɪk | ▶adjective formal characterized by or designed to display rhetorical or oratorical skill. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Greek epideiktikos (based on deiknunai ‘to show ’).