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obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance. [Obs.] Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious. Cudworth.

To open. [Poetic] Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show Emerson.

ivine command; an angel; a prophet. God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will. Milton.

o lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved.

The science or art of teaching.

A follower of Paracelsus or his practice or teachings. Hakewill.

as, a pathetic song or story. "Pathetic action." Macaulay. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. E. Porter. Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. -- Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle…

ndicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.

Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak.

g faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; teachery. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n.

le; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. "The popularizing of religious teaching." Milman.

To teach or accustom by practice; to train. In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor. Landor.

To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching. "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation." Ps. xl. 9.

To teach by precepts. [Obs.] Bacon.

who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.

To forewarn; to admonish beforehand. [R.] Herrick. To teach, and to premonish. Bk. of Com. Prayer.