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Postby Bailey » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:45 pm

di·dac·tic (d-dktk) also di·dac·ti·cal (-t-kl)
adj.
1. Intended to instruct.
2. Morally instructive.
3. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.


[Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching, from didaktos, taught, from didaskein, didak-, to teach, educate.]


di·dacti·cal·ly adv.
di·dacti·cism (-t-szm) n.

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I like the way it's spelled I love all the D's and C's together .

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Postby Perry » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:52 pm

I'd offer you a free D&C, but you are purportedly the wrong gender.
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Postby Bailey » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:06 pm

Gee, uh thanks, but no thanks,

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Postby skinem » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:06 pm

I'm a little surprised that definition #3 is where it is...it seems most times I've heard this word used it's in that context.
The definitions are usually ranked by common usage, aren't they?

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Postby Bailey » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:11 pm

But then I'd have offered Pontificate.

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Postby gailr » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:30 pm

This one's for Stargzer. :lol:

1. Q. What is Didactic Education?
A. Didactic Education is education which is Morally instructive.

2. Q. Who can provide a Didactic Education?
A. A member of an approved religious teaching order may provide a Didactic Education.

3. Q. Why should we receive a Didactic Education?
A. We should receive a Didactic Education in order to receive right and true intellectual formation.

4. Q. What must we do to receive a Didactic Education?
A. To receive a Didactic Education we must listen attentively, repent from disobedient questions, and believe with all our heart.

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