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1918 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 38 64 The Assyrian proverb is obviously original; in being adapted to the purpose of the didact and employed to illustrate ingratitude it has lost its trenchancy and has become ridiculous.

1951 Studies 40 322 Plato..rates the fine arts lower than the utilitarian crafts, and all poets other than the pure ‘didacts’ he would expel from the well-organized city State.

1974 Victorian Stud. 18 152 In Middlemarch Neumann dramatizes the educational function of Romanticism when he plays the kindly didact to Dorothea.

1979 Change 11 64/2 They don't open minds, they close eyes; they don't stimulate brains, they wash them. In an ironic way, these uptight didacts are but a mirror image of their opposite numbers, the loose nonideologues.

2001 M. Priestley in H. Bloom John Irving 31 He has not quite been able to divorce himself from the academic world—in which the didact who tells a story to make a point then explains his point to make sure no one has missed it.