English

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• didactick (obsolete)

Adjective

didactic ‎(comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobility] they have not taught.

   didactic poetry‎

   • Macaulay:

     The finest didactic poem in any language.

2. Excessively moralizing.
3. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

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Noun

didactic ‎(plural didactics)

1. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

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