didactical

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Sibisi In African performance, the naming of things isn’t didactical, and you could say that by trying to do so you play into Western hierarchies of high art and low art.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

"Besides, this is Good Friday, not Easter Day," the old soldier concluded with severe, didactical mien.

From Through Russia by Hogarth, C. J.

It takes up into itself the didactical and practical elements, and rises through the force of its content to universality.—

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

Herein lies the point of the practical, or you may say if you choose, the didactical, side of the question; the point where our music touches our longevity.

From Seed Thoughts for Singers by Tubbs, Frank Herbert

These, however, are not the didactical portions of the book, but the proofs and examples; which, according to the custom of the ancient grammarians, ought to be taken from other authors.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold