pedagogism

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

pedagogism (usually uncountable, plural pedagogisms)

  1. The character, manner, occupation, or system of pedagogues.
    • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, [], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
      [H]eal this tetter of pedagogism that bespreads him []
    • 1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of Satan’s Agents or Missionaries, and Their Actings upon and in the Minds of Men in His Name”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern: [], London: [] T. Warner, [], →OCLC, part II (Of the Modern History of the Devil), page 244:
      [W]hen his other more momentous Avocations of Pedantry and Pedagogiſm vvill give him an Interval from VVrath and Contention, he vvill ſet apart a Moment to conſider humane Nature Deviliz'd, and give us a Mathematical Anatomical Deſcription of it; []

Translations[edit]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pedagogism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French pédagogisme.

Noun[edit]

pedagogism n (uncountable)

  1. pedagogism

Declension[edit]