Didascaly

Didascaly, Greek Antiquity [modern ad. Greek διδασκαλία instruction, teaching; in plural as in quotation. So modern French didascalie.]^[1]

1. In The Catalogues of the ancient Greek Dramas, with their writers, dates, etc., such as were compiled by Aristotle and others.^[2]

2. The instruction of the chorus in ancient Greek theatre. ^[3]

3. In ancient Greek theatre, the performance of a tetralogy. ^[4]

Examples

1831 T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle vi. M887 70 "Did not they give to melopoeia, choregraphy, and the sundry forms of didascalies [printed -icsj, the precedence of all other matters, civil and military?"
1849 Grote Greece 11. lxvii. (1862) VI. 26 "The first, second and third [tetralogies] are specified in the Didaskalics or Theatrical Records."

^ Oxford English Dictionary (2003)
^ James Murray, Editor (1897) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Clarendon Press Oxford
^ Encyclopedia Britannica (2010)
^ August Witzschel (1850) The Athenian Stage, F. & J. Rivington, London (translated from the German, digitized by Google Books)

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didascalic — |dīˌda|skalik, īdə| , |didə| adjective Etymology: Late Latin didascalicus, from Greek didaskalikos, from didaskalos teacher (from didaskein to teach) + ikos ic more at docile 1. archaic : intended to teach (as a moral lesson) : moralistic … Useful english dictionary