didactic

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

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