Demegoric

Quick meaning: Demegoric is an adjective meaning Related to public speaking, especially as a style of rhetoric.

Meaning

Related to public speaking, especially as a style of rhetoric.

Example Sentences

The girl had a fear of anything demegoric.

The values used for the encomium are precisely the predicates that characterise the demegoric genre (that which is fair, legal, useful, etc.).

The only evidence that appears to group encomium and invective into a demegoric genus, together with exhortation and dissuasion, is the common set of topics given at 1.4 NS 3.1 (CF. 10.1).

As philosophy developed its own branches from physics to logic, so did the art of rhetoric, giving rise to demegoric speaking before the assembly, dicanic speaking in the court room, and epideictic or ceremonial addresses for special occasions.

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Related dictionary entries include demagogic, elocutionary, epideictic, oratorlike, oratorical, megaphonic.

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