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.

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

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 point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of th…

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…

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an anima…

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.