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a1626 L. Andrewes Opuscula Quædam Posthuma (1629) 50 Books of the Fathers, written dogmatically or didactically.

1790 R. Pulteney Hist. & Biogr. Sketches Progress Bot. in Eng. I. xxi. 282 George Knowles described 400 plants of the Mteria Medica in Latin verse, and didactically applied them to their uses in medicine.

1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 135 I will give it, not didactically, but wrapt up.

1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xi. 436 He might have done this didactically, or by way of narrative.

1970 G. Dickson Hour of Horde ix. 111 ‘You'll never beat Luhon’, he repeated, not didactically or stubbornly, but in the calm tone of somebody who patiently states a fact to a child or someone of simple intelligence.

1992 W. H. Brock Fontana Hist. Chem. ii. 46 Didactically acquired knowledge of iatrochemistry gave these medical practitioners..a base upon which they could branch out into their own medical practice.