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Definition

describing something intended to instruct; or someone excessively inclined to instruct

didactic = describing someone as inclined too inclined to instruct

didactic = intended to instruct

"The principal difficulty in your case," remarked Holmes, in his didactic fashion, "lay in the fact of there being too much evidence."
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Favoring moral reforms and de-emphasizing didactic ritual, Erasmus laid the groundwork for Luther.
Protestant Reformation - Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation (retrieved 05/20/06)
The book of Jonah, is described as a didactic, or teaching, story.
'It was a common punishment in Imperial China,' said O'Brien as didactically as ever.
George Orwell -- 1984

didactically = describing someone excessively inclined to instruct

She'd guessed he was a schoolmaster, he had that rather didactic, fluent way with him.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

didactic = inclined to instruct

Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Ursula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

didactic = excessively inclined to instruct

Moody's grandfather wrote in belabored, redundant, didactic prose.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

didactic = intended to instruct

He had in three years of practice already become didactic and incredibly married; he had put on weight and infallibility; and he had learned many new things about which to be dull.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

didactic = excessively inclined to instruct

And was told, in didactic tones, that a wife of a man in Roarke's position would have to learn basic social skills.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death

didactic = excessively instructional

What additional didactic counsels did he similarly repress?
James Joyce -- Ulysses

didactic = intended to instruct

M. Bouc continued somewhat didactically.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

didactically = in a manner intended to instruct

She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn't sell.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women

didactic = describing something intended to instruct

Monsieur the Principal thinks that my thesis ought to be dogmatic and didactic.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

didactic = instructive

who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

didactic = intended to instruct

didactic = excessively inclined to instruct

He sat gazing in clammy want at her full red lips and dimpled cheeks as he listened to Major Danby describe in a monotonous, didactic male drone the heavy concentrations of flak awaiting them at Avignon, and he moaned in deep despair suddenly at the thought that he might never see again this lovely woman to whom he had never spoken a word and whom he now loved so pathetically.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

didactic = intended to instruct

The shallowness of a waternixie's soul may have a charm until she becomes didactic.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
The British Constitution was to Montesquieu what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry.
Madison, James -- Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison

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