didacticaladj.

1603 T. Jackson Davids Pastorall Poeme i. f. 4^v Most of..[the arguments are] propheticall, and all of them didacticall.

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 382 Amongst the Didacticall or Doctrinall Books.

1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 255 Never any man labour'd more at the didactical Art, or the Art of teaching than he did.

1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. v. 116 They are not registered as experiments but delivered to the reader in the stile of didactical instruction.

1840 Morning Post 30 July 5/6 Holding up two fingers in a didactical manner.

1871 Academy 15 Sept. 448/1 His didactical poem is imitated from similar Provencal and Old-French poems.

1968 Canad. Math. Bull. 11 168 The scientific and didactical value of Hilbert's ‘Foundations of geometry’ was not in doubt by anybody.

1999 J. Moonen in J. van den Akker et al. Design Approaches & Tools in Educ. & Training viii. 109 A typical activity of a teacher is to structure a learning environment, using a specific didactical approach.

1839 T. Carlyle Let. 8 Dec. in Corr. Emerson & Carlyle (1964) 252 Her [sc. Harriet Martineau's] meagre didacticalities affect me no more.

1869 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (new ed.) I. 313 For a like reason of didacticality [1827 didacticness]..Wieland could afford me nothing.

1913 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 20 Sept. 565/1 The ignorant who are not defective possess among other attributes, the following: Didacticality, originality, ingenuity, the power of prolonged attention, and the ability to cooperate intelligently if not accurately with the examiner.