di·dac·tic

(dī-dăk′tĭk) also di·dac·ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl)

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·dac′ti·cal·ly adv.

di·dac′ti·cism (-tĭ-sĭz′əm) n.

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Adv.

didactically - in a didactic manner; "this is a didactically sound method"

pedagogically

Translations

didactically

[dɪˈdæktɪkəlɪ] ADV → didácticamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

didactically

adv → didaktisch

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didactically

[dɪˈdæktɪklɪ] adv → didatticamente

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"No chance of Zepps over here, I should say," Collins declared, a little didactically. "I was looking at your map at the golf club only this morning."

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He enjoined Lagosians not to kick against this laudable government policy but give support to Johnson and didactically, detail by detail, tutored his listeners on the process of the payment of the tenement rate.

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Thus Big Brother in Beijing has didactically lectured Kim to negotiate with the U.S.

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Nearby, The Seminar, 1988, didactically presented photographs of Flynt and his niece reading, conversing, and posing for the camera; these photos were hung above a vitrine containing excerpts from expository texts on depth psychology by Flynt alongside examples of the mainstream materials he was critiquing.

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Challenging the staid intellectual approach, this collaborative exhibit provided a glimpse of how an individual might approach Japanese art both didactically and personally, with both insight and whimsy.

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With respect to my own teaching, I have learned to see an operative procedure as a series of interdependent cascaded steps (a didactically useful perspective), not only as a coalesced performance exercise.

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Clinical skills have also historically been taught didactically (Rutt, 2017).

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To begin, Rosenberg moves didactically swift and transphilosophically coalesces a great variety of layers and voices, contemporary U.S.

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