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epidictical

epidictical is the dated form of epidictic.

Meaning of epidictic

Adjective

epidictic (comparative more epidictic, superlative most epidictic)

  1. Serving to explain; demonstrative.
    • Certainly, the background of argumentation along with its epidictic maintenance provides a good example of this kind of hegemony.2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom

Forms of epidictical

comparativemore epidictical
superlativemost epidictical

Questions about epidictical

What is epidictical the dated form of?
Epidictical is the dated form of epidictic.

Words near epidictical in the dictionary

  1. epidermous
  2. epiderms
  3. epidiascope
  4. epidiascopes
  5. epidictic
  6. epidictical
  7. epididymal
  8. epididymally
  9. epididymectomies
  10. epididymectomy
  11. epididymides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epidictical (page history and authors); epidictic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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