didactive, a.
(dɪˈdæktɪv)
[irreg. f. Gr. διδακτ-ός taught, or that can be taught + -ive: after words from L. like act-ive.]
= didactic.
| 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 258 The way of form and method, the didactive or preceptive manner. 1768 Misc. in Ann. Reg. 168/2 Either drily didactive..or triflingly volatile. 1821 Blackw. Mag. X. 330 So enchanted was the didactive muse with the verses. 1821 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Old & New Schm., He is under the restraint of a formal or didactive hypocrisy in company, as a clergyman is under a moral one. |