Meanings of epideictic in English

Most of them are epideictic; a good many are on works of art and literature; there are some very beautiful epitaphs.

Again, many of the so-called epideictic epigrams are little more than stories told shortly in elegiac verse, much like the stories in Ovid's Fasti.

The Epideictic section, as one would expect from the more miscellaneous nature of its contents, has a larger proportion of non-elegiac pieces.