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Definition of Propaedeutics

1. Noun. A course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally).

Definition of Propaedeutics

1. Noun. (plural of propaedeutic) ¹

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Definition of Propaedeutics

1. propaedeutic [n] - See also: propaedeutic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Propaedeutics

Literary usage of Propaedeutics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles by Abraham Kuyper (1898)
"Organic Articulation of propaedeutics The discussion of propaedeutics, as such, is really in place in a ratio studiorum, and not in Encyclopedia proper. ..."

2. The Science of Education in Its Sociological and Historical Aspects by Otto Willmann, Felix Marie Kirsch (1921)
"A graded course of study prepares for the last-named subject, and this preparatory course Clement compares with the propaedeutics of the Pythagoreans.2 The ..."

3. Herbart and the Herbartians by Charles de Garmo (1895)
"The subject of instruction he treats under three heads, — Statics, propaedeutics, and Concentration. 1. Of the Statics of instruction, he says that there ..."

4. Herbart and the Herbartians by Charles De Garmo (1895)
"The subject of instruction he treats under three heads, — Statics, propaedeutics, and Concentration. 1. Of the Statics of instruction, he says that there ..."

5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"Such a survey can be presented only by one who has studied a science in all its ramifications. The terra propaedeutics is often, of course, merely relative ..."

6. Report on Education by John Wesley Hoyt (1870)
"... theoretical propaedeutics, two hours; diagnostic exercises by the sick-bed, pathology and therapeutics of the central and peripheral nervous systems, ..."

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