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13 words match “DIDACTIC”

DIDACTIC n.
A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] Milton.
DIDACTIC; DIDACTICAL a.
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.
DIDACTICALLY adv.
In a didactic manner.
DIDACTICISM n.
The didactic method or system.
DIDACTICITY n.
Aptitude for teaching. Hare.
DIDACTICS n.
The art or science of teaching.
DIDASCALIC a.
Didactic; preceptive. [R.] Prior.
EPISTLE n.
to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters. A madman's epistles are no gospels. Shak.
GNOMICALLY adv.
In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.
MONTESSORI METHOD n.
of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially t…
PRECEPTIVE a.
Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. The lesson given us here is preceptive to us. L'Estrange.
SENTIMENTAL a.
sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Whitehead.
SERMONIC; SERMONICAL a.
Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic. [R.] "Conversation . . . satirical or sermonic." Prof. Wilson. "Sermonical style." V. Knox.