1. a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people; - Example: "Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
epideictic oratory
n 1: a type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or
group of people; "Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians
killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of
epideictic oratory"