Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a didactic manner; in the form of instruction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a didactic manner.

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  • adverb In a didactic manner.

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  • adverb in a didactic manner

Etymologies

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didactic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • But the story about the time that I just acted on a moment of meanness – of unbidden, unjustified, inexplicable meanness – that story, I don’t know how spin didactically.

    Falling Out Of Trees | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • If only we quit focusing on what the Bible didactically "says" and converse with the text in its broader cultural context.

    What Does The Bible Actually Say About Gay Marriage? 2011

  • One suspects that, despite his protestation that we don't necessarily need a "lesson" from such a novel as The Kindly Ones, Bukiet would prefer that its unmediated access to the point of view of a morally compromised protagonist be placed in a more didactically clear context as a corrective to "wallowing."

    Furies 2009

  • One suspects that, despite his protestation that we don't necessarily need a "lesson" from such a novel as The Kindly Ones, Bukiet would prefer that its unmediated access to the point of view of a morally compromised protagonist be placed in a more didactically clear context as a corrective to "wallowing."

    Point of View in Fiction 2009

  • One suspects that, despite his protestation that we don't necessarily need a "lesson" from such a novel as The Kindly Ones, Bukiet would prefer that its unmediated access to the point of view of a morally compromised protagonist be placed in a more didactically clear context as a corrective to "wallowing."

    December 2009 2009

  • "Watercolour," the show, does manage to be as accessible as its medium - which means it also succeeds didactically.

    Medium is message at Tate Britain 'Watercolour' show 2011

  • One suspects that, despite his protestation that we don't necessarily need a "lesson" from such a novel as The Kindly Ones, Bukiet would prefer that its unmediated access to the point of view of a morally compromised protagonist be placed in a more didactically clear context as a corrective to "wallowing."

    Translated Texts 2010

  • In the second, the children were taught didactically about shapes: "this is a triangle."

    Ellen Galinsky: The Promise of Play: A Report from the 2010 Aspen Institute Ideas Festival 2010

  • The last of these qualities is especially important when it comes to the plays of Brecht, which are too often directed so didactically that they become stiff.

    Deadly Serious Comedy 2010

  • The series does not deploy these themes didactically or even moralistically.

    What Girls Want 2008

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