Both Uses of
didactic
in
Pygmalion
- who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic.
Act Pref. *didactic = intended to instruct
- It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic.†
Act Pref.
Definition:
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(didactic) describing something intended to instruct; or someone excessively inclined to instruct