didactic
- Adjective. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry).
- Adjective. Excessively moralizing.
- Adjective. Regarding medicine, teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
- Noun. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.
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