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Definition of Didactic
1. Adjective. Instructive (especially excessively).
Similar to: Informative, Instructive
Derivative terms: Didacticism, Didactics
Definition of Didactic
1. a. Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.
2. n. A treatise on teaching or education.
Definition of Didactic
1. Adjective. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry) ¹
2. Adjective. Excessively moralizing. ¹
3. Adjective. Regarding medicine, teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application. ¹
4. Noun. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Didactic
1. instructive [adj] - See also: instructive
Medical Definition of Didactic
1. Instructive; denoting medical teaching by lectures or textbooks, as distinguished from clinical demonstrations with patients or laboratory exercises. Origin: G. Didaktikos, fr. Didasko, to teach (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Didactic
Literary usage of Didactic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"These objects constitute the didactic system (or set of didactic materials) used
by me. They are manufactured by the House of Labour of the Humanitarian ..."
2. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"URE OF GOOD didactic PROSE. ThE last department in the literature of any country,
that comes within the jurisdiction of criticism on account of its style is ..."
3. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"But as reflection gradually took the place of naivete', and the didactic spirit
began ... Among the early literature of this didactic nature may be noted a ..."
4. An Outline of the Religious Literature of India by John Nicol Farquhar (1920)
"Both are reflected in the didactic epic, but the evidence is too slender to ...
E. The didactic Epic. * 102. The main didactic epic is believed to have been ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"The vulgar conception of didactic poetry is—that the adjunct, didactic, ...
As a term of convenience, didactic may serve to discriminate one class of poetry ..."
6. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"A1107, if carrying to Extreme the Tendency in Plain Language, becomes didactic;
if the Tendency in Figurative Language, it becomes Ornate —didactic Alloy ..."
7. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"The two classes are not to be sharply set over against each other; for polemic
and didactic poetry usually contained much narrative, and the narrative ..."
8. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"The two classes are not to be sharply set over against each other; for polemic
and didactic poetry usually contained much narrative, and the narrative ..."
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