Didactic vs Redacted - What's the difference?
didactic | redacted |
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
* Macaulay
Excessively moralizing.
(medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Edited or censored.
:The government released the redacted document, so most of it was blacked out as secret.
(redact)
As adjectives the difference between didactic and redacted
is that didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry while redacted is edited or censored.As a noun didactic
is a treatise on teaching or education.As a verb redacted is
past tense of redact.didactic
English
Alternative forms
* didactick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The finest didactic poem in any language.