Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun epideictic_oratory

1 sense of epideictic oratory

Sense 1
epideictic oratory -- (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")
       => oratory -- (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory")