didacticiann.
/ˌdʌɪdakˈtɪʃn/, /ˌdɪdakˈtɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌdɪdækˈtɪʃən/, /ˌdaɪdækˈtɪʃən/ An instructor; a didactic writer.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > instructive writer
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didactician1827
1827 Sporting Mag. May 43/1 Our grave didacticians teach that we lie under no obligation of justice towards beasts.
1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (1887) 100 He [sc. M. Arnold] thus becomes a better prose-writer than a mere didactician ever could be.
1907 Harper's Mag. Feb. 483/2 The conventional moralist was in demand: and..the town wanted a more positive didactician than Pope had been.
1998 Educ. Stud. Math. 38 103 As didacticians, we must sharpen our awareness of the distinctions between explanation, argument and proof.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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