endeictic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ancient Greek [Term?]

Adjective[edit]

endeictic (not comparable)

  1. Serving to show or exhibit.
    • 1791, William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker, The History of Philosophy:
      The Agonistic dialogues , supposed to resemble the combat , were either Endeictic, as exhibiting a specimen of skill , or Anatreptic , presenting the spectacle of a perfect defeat .

References[edit]

endeictic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.