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Meanings of epideictic in English

Russian
эпидейктическая речь
Spanish
registro epidíctico

Literary genre.

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          эпидейктическая речь

          Designed primarily for rhetorical display.

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                Usage of epideictic in English
                1
                Most of them are epideictic; a good many are on works of art and literature; there are some very beautiful epitaphs.
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                2
                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.
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                3
                The Epideictic section, as one would expect from the more miscellaneous nature of its contents, has a larger proportion of non-elegiac pieces.
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