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didactic (iou)



didactic adjective & noun. M17.
[Greek didaktikos, from didak- stem of didaskein teach: see -IC. In English perh. after French didactique.]
A. adjective. Having the character or manner of a teacher; intended to instruct; having instruction as an ulterior purpose. M17.
T. F. Dibdin The dullest of all possible didactic and moral poetry. A. Hailey Letting Harry London get to the point in his own didactic way.
B. noun.
1. A didactic author or treatise. M17-M19.
2. In pl. (treated as sing. or pl.). The art of teaching. M19.
didactical adjective (rare) = DIDACTIC adjective E17.
didactically adverb E17.
didacticism noun the practice or quality of being didactic M19.
didactive adjective = DIDACTIC adjective E18.