didactic

• didactick (obsolete)

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact +‎ -ic.

• enPR: dī-dăkˈtĭk, IPA^(key): /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/, /dɪˈdæk.tɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æktɪk
• Hyphenation: di‧dac‧tic

didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

   Synonyms: educative, instructive

   didactic poetry

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     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.

   • 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

     The finest didactic poem in any language.

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

didactic (plural didactics)

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

Borrowed from French didactique.

didactic m or n (feminine singular didactică, masculine plural didactici, feminine and neuter plural didactice)

1. didactic