Epideictic: alternatives and connections

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.

Enlargement; amplification.

The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.

A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.

To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.

Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their bes…

One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover t…

To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.

Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.

Serving to explain; demonstrative.

The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imaginat…

That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, an…

To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is inter…

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.