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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-135/
- Published: 2019-12-13T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-12-13T05:52:15.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

didactic (adj) – 1\. Intended to instruct.  
2\. Morally instructive.  
3\. Inclined to teach or moralise excessively.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/didactic?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : “fitted or intended for instruction; pertaining to instruction,” 1650s, from French didactique, from Latinised form of Greek didaktikos “apt at teaching,” from didaktos “taught,” past participle of didaskein “teach,” from PIE \*dens- “to learn” (source also of Sanskrit dasra- “effecting miracles”).