Didactic vs Sermon - What's the difference?
didactic | sermon |
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.
Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
*, chapter=3
, title= A lengthy speech of reproval.
(poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
(poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
* 1607 , , II. ii. 177:
As nouns the difference between didactic and sermon
is that didactic is a treatise on teaching or education while sermon is religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.As an adjective didactic
is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry.As a verb sermon is
to discourse to or of, as in a sermon.didactic
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Alternative forms
* didactick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The finest didactic poem in any language.
Derived terms
* didact * didactical * didactically * didacticismsermon
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon , he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
Verb
(en verb)- (Spenser)
- Come, sermon me no further.