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Didactic Poetry

is poetry that teaches some moral lesson, as Pope’s Essay on Man. (Greek, didasko, I teach.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dicers Oaths
Dicilla (in Orlando Furioso)
Dick
Dick’s Hatband
Dick = Richard
Dickens
Dickey or Dicky
Dicky (A)
Dicky Sam
Dictator of Letters
Didactic Poetry
Diddle (To)
Diddler (Jeremy)
Diderick
Dido
Die
Die
Die-hards
Diego (San)
Diēs Alliensis
Diēs Iræ