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Meanings of didactic in English

Instructive (especially excessively)

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Usage of didactic in English
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Secondary characteristics of the operators'' minds, outside the didactic situations, were imposed.
My Name is Legion
2
May's divisive, didactic stance goes to the heart of Britain's Tory problem.
The Guardian
3
He sought the didactic in poetry, and wished for reasoning in numbers.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
4
In the field of satiric and didactic poetry, he is a master.
Halleck's New English Literature
5
Robert was explosive, and rather vague; Edward dreamy, and a little didactic.
Saint's Progress
6
As a didactic poem, it is far superior to the Religio Laici.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
7
It is hard to think of anyone less didactic than my host.
A Time of Gifts
8
It was almost a didactic tableau, fraught with lessons for the vicious.
The Old Wives' Tale
9
Not that Aeschylus, like Euripides, deals in didactic sentences and oracular aphorisms.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
10
He was only twenty, but he had assimilated his didactic courses well.
The Reality Dysfunction
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It is didactic if we are worthy to be taught, no otherwise.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
12
It is didactic if we are worthy to be taught, not otherwise.
The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud ...
13
Almost as a matter of course, his preaching was expository and didactic.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners F...
14
An inveterate talker, especially one of a didactic turn, is a bore.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
15
Deliver us from the didactic and the everlastingly improving style of thing!
As We Go
16
Exactly what was included in the Dorados' basic history didactic courses?
The Neutronium Alchemist
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