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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
di·dac·tic       [dahy-dak-tik] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
2.inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3.teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
4.didactics, (used with a singular verb) the art or science of teaching.
Also, di·dac·ti·cal.


[Origin: 1635–45; < Gk didaktikós apt at teaching, instructive, equiv. to didakt(ós) that may be taught + -ikos -ic]

di·dac·ti·cal·ly, adverb
di·dac·ti·cism, noun

2. pedantic, preachy, donnish, pedagogic.
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di·dac·tic       (dī-dāk'tĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Intended to instruct.
  2. Morally instructive.
  3. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.


[Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching, from didaktos, taught, from didaskein, didak-, to teach, educate.]

di·dac'ti·cal·ly adv., di·dac'ti·cism (-tĭ-sĭz'əm) n.
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didactic 
1658, from Fr. didactique, from Gk. didaktikos "apt at teaching," from didaktos "taught," from didaskein "teach," from PIE base *dens- "wisdom, to teach, learn."

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didactic

adjective
instructive (especially excessively) 

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

didactic di·dac·tic (dī-dāk'tĭk)
adj.
Of or relating to medical teaching by lectures or textbooks as distinguished from clinical demonstration with patients.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Didactic

Di*dac"tic\, Didactical \Di*dac"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to teach; akin to L. docere to teach: cf. F. didactique. See Docile.] Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays. "Didactical writings." --Jer. Taylor.

The finest didactic poem in any language. --Macaulay.

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Didactic

Di*dac"tic\, n. A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] --Milton.

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