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didactic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Didactic \Di*dac"tic\, n.
A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.]
--Milton.
Didactic \Di*dac"tic\, Didactical \Di*dac"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to teach; akin to L. docere to teach: cf. F. didactique. See Docile.]
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Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays. ``Didactical writings.''
--Jer. Taylor.The finest didactic poem in any language.
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excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish to be instructed; -- of people. [Pejorative]
Syn: didactic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French didactique, from Greek didaktikos "apt at teaching," from didaktos "taught," past participle of didaskein "teach," from PIE root *dens- "wisdom, to teach, learn." Related: Didactically; didacticism.
Wiktionary
a. 1 instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry) 2 Excessively moralizing. 3 (context medicine English) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application. n. (context archaic English) A treatise on teaching or education.
WordNet
adj. instructive (especially excessively) [syn: didactical]
Usage examples of "didactic".
The pneumatic sense, which is the only meaning borne by many passages, an assertion which neither Philo nor Clement ventured to make in plain terms, has with Origen a negatively apologetic and a positively didactic aim.
As he had promised, Arak showed up just after the group had eaten breakfast and asked if everyone was ready for the didactic session.
Church give you a generalist didactic memory of Lalonde before you left?
The Lalonde generalist didactic memory called it a kroclion, a plains-dwelling carnivore which even the sayce ran from.
Her Confederation generalist didactic memory identified it immediately: a soldier-caste Tyrathca.
Everyone helped, and everyone learnt the more practical aspects of gussets and joists and tenons and rabbet grooves that a didactic carpentry course could never impart.
Joshua gazed at her levelly, remembering the didactic course he had taken on affinity and Edenist culture.
He was receiving didactic courses from Ruth Hilton, who said he was absorbing the agronomy data at a satisfactory rate, and would make a promising farmer one day.
The history of his people, though he believed in it literally, was in its main points a didactic allegoric poem for enabling him to inculcate the doctrine that man attains the vision of God by mortification of the flesh.
He must needs weave his phantasy into some quietly melancholy fabric of didactic or allegorical cast, in which his meekly resigned cynicism may display with naive moral appraisal the perfidy of a human race which he cannot cease to cherish and mourn despite his insight into its hypocrisy.
If you find the didactic parts of this book to be disturbing, troublesome, or annoying, then please consider them to be successful.
The Redemptionists sometimes brought Uldra immigrants before the Mull, the better to prod that often discursive, airy, didactic and capricious group into action.
But the characteristic writers of the time, people like Auden and Spender and MacNeice, have been didactic, political writers, aesthetically conscious, of course, but more interested in subject-matter than in technique.
Klein, a physiologist, before the Royal Commission, testified that he had no regard at all for the sufferings of the animals he used, and never used anaesthetics, except for didactic purposes, unless necessary for his own convenience, and that he had no time for thinking what the animal would feel or suffer.
Chekhov and a didactic one like Gorki, one of those naive and nervous Russian intellectuals who thought that a little patience and kindness with the miserable, half savage, unfathomable Russian peasant would do the trick.