Epideictic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Epideictic \Ep`i*deic"tic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to show forth,
     display; 'epi` + ? to show. Cf. {Epidictic}.]
     Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the
     Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification,
     seeks to persuade. Epidemic