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Having or exhibiting two colors.

Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.

A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] Milton.

ach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays. "Didactical writings." Jer. Taylor. The finest didactic poem in any language. Macaulay.

In a didactic manner.

The didactic method or system.

Aptitude for teaching. Hare.

The art or science of teaching.

Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

In a dietetical manner.

enic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet. To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

Dietetic.

Dietetic. [R.] Ferrand.

Revolving on an axis. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Distinguishing; distinctive; defining. [R.] -- Di`o*ris"tic*al*ly, adv. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Containing diorite.

Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.

Having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder.

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

Diploic.