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Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

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  1. a. Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
  2. adj. designed primarily for rhetorical display
  3. Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
  4. Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by theGreeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks topersuade.
  5. s. designed primarily for rhetorical display