didactic

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From Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikos, skilled in teaching) from διδακτός (didaktos, taught, learnt) from διδάσκω (didaskō, I teach, educate)

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  • enPR: dī-dăkˈtĭk, IPA: /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/

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didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

  1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  2. Excessively moralizing.
  3. Regarding medicine, teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

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didactic (plural didactics)

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

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