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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.

Aptitude for teaching. Hare.

The art or science of teaching.

ality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse. "A plentiful and diffusive perfume." Hare.

Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate. Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care. Otway.

A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke,

Serving to instruct; teaching. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. Hooker.

In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.

Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2.

m him. Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. -- Dominican tertiaries (the third order of St. Dominic). See Tertiary.

A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. Marshal…

The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

ind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities. [Written also droitzschka, and droschke.]…

rfere with the duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.

That which is taken by encroaching on another.

Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.] Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall.

The preaching or promulgation of the gospel. Bacon.

Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit. And shall lay thee even with the ground. Luke xix. 44.