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EPIDEICTIC

Definition: EPIDEICTIC

EPIDEICTIC

Adjective

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Epideictic \Ep`i*deic"tic\, adjective. [from Greek expression, from to show forth, display; 'epi` to show. Compare to Epidictic.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Commercial Usage: EPIDEICTIC

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Books

  • In Praise of Aeneas: Virgil and Epideictic Rhetoric in Early Italian Renaissance (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EPIDEICTIC

Language Translations for "EPIDEICTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

để trưng bà y (exhibitive), để phô bà y. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: EPIDEICTIC

Misspellings

"EPIDEICTIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epideistic, epideitic, epidiektic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EPIDEICTIC"

Words rhyming with "EPIDEICTIC" (pronounced 'Ep`i*deic"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EPIDEICTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-i-i-p-t"

-3 letters: deictic, eidetic.

-4 letters: citied, deceit, depict, pectic, pieced, pitied.

-5 letters: cited, deice, edict, ictic, piece, teiid, tepid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EPIDEICTIC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 50 49 44 45 49 43 54 49 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    .--.    ..    -..    .    ..    -.-.    -    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01010000 01001001 01000100 01000101 01001001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#80 &#73 &#68 &#69 &#73 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0050 0049 0044 0045 0049 0043 0054 0049 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39504338394337544337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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