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propædeutic, a. and n.|prəʊpiːˈdjuːtɪk|
[f. Gr. type *προπαιδευτικός adj., f. προπαιδεύειν to teach beforehand, f. πρό, pro-2 + παιδεύειν to teach, educate: see pædeutics.]
A. adj. Pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction; supplying the knowledge or discipline introductory or preliminary to some art or science; preliminarily educational.
1849Morell Philos. Relig. 139 Judaism was Propædeutic to Christianity. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 262 The university course is almost wholly special; the liberal and propædeutic studies are relegated to the grammar-school. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1704 The study of philosophy has a propaedeutic value.
B. n.
1. A subject or study which forms an introduction to an art or science, or to more advanced study generally.
1798A. F. M. Willich Elem. Crit. Philos. 19 In the mean time Kant's system, or rather his elementary Propedeutic for a system, acquired still greater reputation. 1836Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 285 If Mathematics..do constitute the true logical catharticon, the one practical propaedeutic of all reasoning. 1855Meiklejohn tr. Kant's Critique Pref. 25 Logic is properly only a propædeutic— forms, as it were, the vestibule of the sciences. 1905Athenæum Feb. 170 Psychology pushes its claim to be the propaedeutic of metaphysics, with dire results to intellectualism.
2. pl. propædeutics. The body of principles or rules introductory to any art, science, or subject of special study; preliminary learning.
1842Brande Dict. Sci., etc., Propædeutics..a term used by German writers to signify the preliminary learning connected with any art or science: that in which it is necessary to be instructed, in order to study with advantage the art or science itself. 1877A. B. Alcott Table-T. 114 Rather is it [our secular life] the propædeutics of human combination and communication, wherein spiritual life becomes a reality.
Hence propæˈdeutical a. = propædeutic a.
1867J. H. Stirling Schwegler's Hist. Philos. (1871) 205 Logic precedes both as propædeutical of the study of philosophy in general. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 6 Apr. 257/3 The propaedeutical narration of various well-chosen anecdotes. |