didacticn.adj.

Brit.

/dʌɪˈdaktɪk/,

/dᵻˈdaktɪk/, U.S.

/dᵻˈdæktɪk/,

/daɪˈdæktɪk/

Forms: 1600s didactick, 1600s–1700s didactique, 1600s– didactic.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Perhaps also a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin didactica; Latin didacticus; Greek διδακτικός.

Etymology: As noun originally < post-classical Latin didactica instructive treatise (1639 in the passage translated in quot. 1642 at sense A. 1), use as noun of feminine of didacticus , adjective (see below). As adjective < (i) post-classical Latin didacticus (1519 or earlier), or its etymon (ii) Hellenistic Greek διδακτικός skilled at teaching, instructive < ancient Greek διδακτός taught, that can be taught ( < διδάσκειν to teach (reduplicated present < δαῆναι to learn ( < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit dasra wonderfully skilled) + -σκ- , verbal suffix) + -τός , suffix forming verbal adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French didactique , adjective and noun (1554 in Middle French as adjective). Compare also German Didaktik (noun) didactics (1614). With use as adjective compare earlier didactical adj.

A. n.

1. A writer or piece of writing having instruction as a primary or ulterior purpose. Also: an instruction, a direction.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > didactic

didactic1642

society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > instructive writer

institutionist1662

institutist1666

didactic1797

institutionalist1817

didactician1827

1642 S. Hartlib tr. J. A. Comenius Reformation of Schooles 92 The Great Didactick [L. Didactica Magna], shewing the universall meanes to teach all men all things.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 To search what many modern Ianua's and Didactics..have projected, my inclination leads me not.

1797 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 6 84 But Goldsmith is not a didactic—he is a descriptive poet.

1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 163 Acknowledged in the oldest didactics upon this subject.

1891 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 436/2 The classical didactics of Pope, Dryden, and the earlier Georgians.

1991 Irish Times 13 Aug. 8/8 The series doesn't get preoccupied with particular tricks with rods and baits, didactics about the right technique for the shallows and so on.

2011 H. Swaminathan in M. A. Bray & T. J. Kehle Oxf. Handbk. School Psychol. vi. 124/2 A didactic on using this software is provided by Spybook (2008).

2. With the. Esp. in literature: instruction as a primary element or tendency; instructive purpose.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > [noun]

lore971

wissingc1000

wordloreOE

teachingc1175

kenningc1320

lering1377

learningc1380

disciplinea1382

doctrinec1384

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instruction?a1439

schoolc1449

schoolingc1449

document?a1500

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entechmenta1522

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tuition1582

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tutoring1590

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tutorage1638

indoctrination1646

principling1649

tutorya1713

tutorhood1752

didactic1754

documenting1801

pupillizing1815

tutorizing1837

tutorization1842

tutelagea1856

coachmanship1873

preception1882

society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun]

informinga1382

traditionc1384

informationa1393

kithinga1400

instruction?a1439

impartment1604

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re-representation1679

didactic1754

briefing1910

imparting1952

trickle-down1962

1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 90. ⁋6 Both [Eloquence and Poetry]..have occasionally strengthened themselves with Insertions of the Didactic.

1831 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. 8 381 The old prevalence of the Didactic, especially of the Æsopic, is every where manifest.

1892 W. E. Baily Classical Poems Pref. p. iv In Spenser the didactic is a controlling principle; in Shakespeare it is an occasional, but still manifest principle.

1929 E. E. Coe & T. Harbury tr. L. Schalit J. Galsworthy: Surv. iii. 40 A satirical humour, in which the didactic is forgotten.

2003 A. B. Thompson Everyday Saints & Art of Narr. 192 Its combination of the popular, the humorous, and the didactic is consonant with the friars' desire to teach a large audience.

B. adj.

a. Esp. of literature: intended to instruct; having instruction as a primary or ulterior purpose; (also) of or relating to literature of this type.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > moral or didactic

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virtuousc1405

didactic1658

tendency1838

tendential1889

tendentious1900

1658 S. Rutherford Surv. of Surv. Church-discipline vi. 341 Nor is it either didactick or suitable to a Systeme of Church-policy, That the administration of all Christs publick Worship and Ordinances, is committed to a company of believers.

1661 J. Worthington Let. 9 Sept. in Diary & Corr. (1855) II. i. 34 Finding in himself a great promptness in such didactic work.

1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. iii. 100 A poem of that species, for which our author's genius was particularly turned, the didactic and the moral.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. v. 124 The dry, didactic character of the Georgics made it necessary, they should be enlivened by Episodes and Digressions.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 682 The dullest of all possible didactic and moral poetry.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 40 A permanent foundation of his [sc. Hobbes'] fame remains in his admirable style, which seems to be the very perfection of didactic language.

1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) viii. 226 I do not mean that sermons addressed to Christian people should be simply didactic.

1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 450/2 The book is poorly constructed..its tenor is didactic and pedantic, the form is more that of a homily than of an objective study.

1999 Ambix 46 3 His ‘chemical chests’ had..a didactic function, enabling his pupils to repeat at home the experiments demonstrated in the course.

2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. Nov. 55/1 His [sc. Ovid's] mock didactic poem The Art of Love.

b. Of a teaching method, teacher, etc.: that conveys knowledge or information by formal means such as lectures and textbooks, rote learning, etc.Frequently contrasted (often unfavourably) with teaching methods encouraging greater involvement or creativity on the part of those being taught.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > [adjective]

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indoctrinating1642

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institutionary1646

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protreptical1662

dogmatic1678

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didactive1723

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didactic1799

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1799 H. More Strictures Mod. Syst. Female Educ. I. xi. 236 Serious instruction will not only be uninteresting, but irksome, if conveyed to youth in a cold didactic way.

1840 B. Turner New Eng. Gram. iv It is the plain didactic method of definition and example, rule and exercise, which no man who means to teach grammar will ever substitute for another.

1883 Med. News 27 Jan. 89/1 How does the statement..that everything is practical and demonstrative, and that the days for didactic teaching and oratory are past, agree with the fact that there..lingers..an intense desire on the part of most people to hear something said by somebody?

1917 G. R. Twiss Textbk. Princ. Sci. Teaching ii. 19 Futility of formal and didactic methods..a recitation so conducted that it serves merely to enlighten the teacher as to whether the pupils have learned the contents of the textbook..is not sufficient.

1979 J. B. Ingram Curriculum Integration & Lifelong Educ. iv. 66 This one-sided view..portrays teaching as didactic, theoretical, and ego-centric, the teacher being active, but the learner passive.

2009 S. Cross Adult Teaching & Learning i. 9 Techniques identified as teacher-centred have come to mean all that is didactic, boring, self-serving and neglectful.

2. Having the character or manner of a teacher or instructor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [adjective] > having a specific character or type

didactic1667

typed1852

1667 Bp. J. Taylor Δεκας Εμβολιμαιος ix. 189 Not only to be blameless, but to be didactick in your lives; that as by your Sermons you preach in season, so by your lives you may preach out of season.

1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 46 Must I be didactick to initiate this Art?

1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. v. 280 Shall I be pardoned for suspecting.., that so didactic a genius would have been deficient in the sublime and pathetic.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 130 Polybius..is too didactic—seldom adorning a tale but always ready to point a moral.

1964 Life 6 Nov. 104/2 As a novelist he is didactic, using his novels as platforms for his metaphysics.

2011 Daily Tel. 14 May 21 In drink the middle-aged male is a repugnant beast—bossy, loud, didactic and know-all.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	didactic
释义	didacticn.adj. Brit. /dʌɪˈdaktɪk/, /dᵻˈdaktɪk/, U.S. /dᵻˈdæktɪk/, /daɪˈdæktɪk/ Forms: 1600s didactick, 1600s–1700s didactique, 1600s– didactic. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Perhaps also a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin didactica; Latin didacticus; Greek διδακτικός. Etymology: As noun originally < post-classical Latin didactica instructive treatise (1639 in the passage translated in quot. 1642 at sense A. 1), use as noun of feminine of didacticus , adjective (see below). As adjective < (i) post-classical Latin didacticus (1519 or earlier), or its etymon (ii) Hellenistic Greek διδακτικός skilled at teaching, instructive < ancient Greek διδακτός taught, that can be taught ( < διδάσκειν to teach (reduplicated present < δαῆναι to learn ( < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit dasra wonderfully skilled) + -σκ- , verbal suffix) + -τός , suffix forming verbal adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French didactique , adjective and noun (1554 in Middle French as adjective). Compare also German Didaktik (noun) didactics (1614). With use as adjective compare earlier didactical adj. A. n. 1. A writer or piece of writing having instruction as a primary or ulterior purpose. Also: an instruction, a direction. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > didactic didactic1642 society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > instructive writer institutionist1662 institutist1666 didactic1797 institutionalist1817 didactician1827 1642 S. Hartlib tr. J. A. Comenius Reformation of Schooles 92 The Great Didactick [L. Didactica Magna], shewing the universall meanes to teach all men all things. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 To search what many modern Ianua's and Didactics..have projected, my inclination leads me not. 1797 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 6 84 But Goldsmith is not a didactic—he is a descriptive poet. 1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 163 Acknowledged in the oldest didactics upon this subject. 1891 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 436/2 The classical didactics of Pope, Dryden, and the earlier Georgians. 1991 Irish Times 13 Aug. 8/8 The series doesn't get preoccupied with particular tricks with rods and baits, didactics about the right technique for the shallows and so on. 2011 H. Swaminathan in M. A. Bray & T. J. Kehle Oxf. Handbk. School Psychol. vi. 124/2 A didactic on using this software is provided by Spybook (2008). 2. With the. Esp. in literature: instruction as a primary element or tendency; instructive purpose. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [noun] lore971 wissingc1000 wordloreOE teachingc1175 kenningc1320 lering1377 learningc1380 disciplinea1382 doctrinec1384 ensignment1398 instruction?a1439 schoolc1449 schoolingc1449 document?a1500 instructing1516 entechmenta1522 institution1531 teachment1562 repasting1567 tuition1582 lessoning1583 tutoring1590 loring1596 tutorage1638 indoctrination1646 principling1649 tutorya1713 tutorhood1752 didactic1754 documenting1801 pupillizing1815 tutorizing1837 tutorization1842 tutelagea1856 coachmanship1873 preception1882 society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] informinga1382 traditionc1384 informationa1393 kithinga1400 instruction?a1439 impartment1604 informance1604 re-representation1679 didactic1754 briefing1910 imparting1952 trickle-down1962 1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 90. ⁋6 Both [Eloquence and Poetry]..have occasionally strengthened themselves with Insertions of the Didactic. 1831 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. 8 381 The old prevalence of the Didactic, especially of the Æsopic, is every where manifest. 1892 W. E. Baily Classical Poems Pref. p. iv In Spenser the didactic is a controlling principle; in Shakespeare it is an occasional, but still manifest principle. 1929 E. E. Coe & T. Harbury tr. L. Schalit J. Galsworthy: Surv. iii. 40 A satirical humour, in which the didactic is forgotten. 2003 A. B. Thompson Everyday Saints & Art of Narr. 192 Its combination of the popular, the humorous, and the didactic is consonant with the friars' desire to teach a large audience. B. adj. 1. a. Esp. of literature: intended to instruct; having instruction as a primary or ulterior purpose; (also) of or relating to literature of this type. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > moral or didactic moralc1390 virtuousc1405 didactic1658 tendency1838 tendential1889 tendentious1900 1658 S. Rutherford Surv. of Surv. Church-discipline vi. 341 Nor is it either didactick or suitable to a Systeme of Church-policy, That the administration of all Christs publick Worship and Ordinances, is committed to a company of believers. 1661 J. Worthington Let. 9 Sept. in Diary & Corr. (1855) II. i. 34 Finding in himself a great promptness in such didactic work. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. iii. 100 A poem of that species, for which our author's genius was particularly turned, the didactic and the moral. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. v. 124 The dry, didactic character of the Georgics made it necessary, they should be enlivened by Episodes and Digressions. 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 682 The dullest of all possible didactic and moral poetry. 1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 40 A permanent foundation of his [sc. Hobbes'] fame remains in his admirable style, which seems to be the very perfection of didactic language. 1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) viii. 226 I do not mean that sermons addressed to Christian people should be simply didactic. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 450/2 The book is poorly constructed..its tenor is didactic and pedantic, the form is more that of a homily than of an objective study. 1999 Ambix 46 3 His ‘chemical chests’ had..a didactic function, enabling his pupils to repeat at home the experiments demonstrated in the course. 2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. Nov. 55/1 His [sc. Ovid's] mock didactic poem The Art of Love. b. Of a teaching method, teacher, etc.: that conveys knowledge or information by formal means such as lectures and textbooks, rote learning, etc.Frequently contrasted (often unfavourably) with teaching methods encouraging greater involvement or creativity on the part of those being taught. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [adjective] instructivea1492 preceptivea1525 instructing1561 documentalc1575 dogmatical1580 doctrinablea1586 doctrinal1597 didactical1603 didascalic1609 tutorly1611 schooling1614 indoctrinating1642 disciplinable1644 docenta1645 institutionary1646 protreptic1658 protreptical1662 dogmatic1678 educating1699 didactive1723 educativea1750 tuitive1776 educatory1792 didactic1799 instructional1801 tuitionary1816 instructionary1824 didascalara1846 teaching1853 tuitional1861 documentary1873 1799 H. More Strictures Mod. Syst. Female Educ. I. xi. 236 Serious instruction will not only be uninteresting, but irksome, if conveyed to youth in a cold didactic way. 1840 B. Turner New Eng. Gram. iv It is the plain didactic method of definition and example, rule and exercise, which no man who means to teach grammar will ever substitute for another. 1883 Med. News 27 Jan. 89/1 How does the statement..that everything is practical and demonstrative, and that the days for didactic teaching and oratory are past, agree with the fact that there..lingers..an intense desire on the part of most people to hear something said by somebody? 1917 G. R. Twiss Textbk. Princ. Sci. Teaching ii. 19 Futility of formal and didactic methods..a recitation so conducted that it serves merely to enlighten the teacher as to whether the pupils have learned the contents of the textbook..is not sufficient. 1979 J. B. Ingram Curriculum Integration & Lifelong Educ. iv. 66 This one-sided view..portrays teaching as didactic, theoretical, and ego-centric, the teacher being active, but the learner passive. 2009 S. Cross Adult Teaching & Learning i. 9 Techniques identified as teacher-centred have come to mean all that is didactic, boring, self-serving and neglectful. 2. Having the character or manner of a teacher or instructor. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [adjective] > having a specific character or type didactic1667 typed1852 1667 Bp. J. Taylor Δεκας Εμβολιμαιος ix. 189 Not only to be blameless, but to be didactick in your lives; that as by your Sermons you preach in season, so by your lives you may preach out of season. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 46 Must I be didactick to initiate this Art? 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. v. 280 Shall I be pardoned for suspecting.., that so didactic a genius would have been deficient in the sublime and pathetic. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 130 Polybius..is too didactic—seldom adorning a tale but always ready to point a moral. 1964 Life 6 Nov. 104/2 As a novelist he is didactic, using his novels as platforms for his metaphysics. 2011 Daily Tel. 14 May 21 In drink the middle-aged male is a repugnant beast—bossy, loud, didactic and know-all. 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