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Definition of propaedeutic in English: propaedeuticadjective ˌprəʊpɪˈdjuːtɪkˌproʊpiˈd(j)udɪk formal (of an area of study) serving as a preliminary instruction or as an introduction to further study. （研究领域）预备的；初步的；基本的 Example sentencesExamples - His lectures and then his writings became highly significant propaedeutic resources, and many of his collections were taken up by the University botanical garden and then later by the Fitzwilliam Museum.
- In this example, primarily for propaedeutic reasons, Fergie's performance is problematised.
- However, this sort of overarching perspective only has the propaedeutic function of pointing our attention in a certain direction.
Synonyms informative, instructional, informational, illuminating, enlightening, revealing, explanatory, telling
noun ˌprəʊpɪˈdjuːtɪkˌproʊpiˈd(j)udɪk formal An introduction to a subject or area of study. 入门 Example sentencesExamples - His reading thus provides us with a propaedeutic to the memorial potential of art after Auschwitz.
- Her method, then, is not a propaedeutic of the destruction or the destructuration of two terms in order to establish a synthesis that is neither one nor the other.
- This view may be compared with the latest contribution to the relevant taxonomies from Douglas Canfield, whose Tricksters and Estates provides a theoretical propaedeutic to his major Broadview anthology.
- This support of the fabrication of the transcendent in its different modes, all of which, according to Diotima, come under the same propaedeutic: love of beauty.
- Logic, sometimes called philosophia rationales, forms the introduction or propaedeutic to both.
OriginLate 18th century: from pro-2 'before' + Greek paideutikos 'of or for teaching', suggested by Greek propaideuein 'teach beforehand'. Definition of propaedeutic in US English: propaedeuticadjectiveˌprōpēˈd(y)o͞odikˌproʊpiˈd(j)udɪk formal (of an area of study) serving as a preliminary instruction or as an introduction to further study. （研究领域）预备的；初步的；基本的 Example sentencesExamples - His lectures and then his writings became highly significant propaedeutic resources, and many of his collections were taken up by the University botanical garden and then later by the Fitzwilliam Museum.
- However, this sort of overarching perspective only has the propaedeutic function of pointing our attention in a certain direction.
- In this example, primarily for propaedeutic reasons, Fergie's performance is problematised.
Synonyms informative, instructional, informational, illuminating, enlightening, revealing, explanatory, telling
nounˌprōpēˈd(y)o͞odikˌproʊpiˈd(j)udɪk formal An introduction to a subject or area of study. 入门 Example sentencesExamples - Logic, sometimes called philosophia rationales, forms the introduction or propaedeutic to both.
- This view may be compared with the latest contribution to the relevant taxonomies from Douglas Canfield, whose Tricksters and Estates provides a theoretical propaedeutic to his major Broadview anthology.
- This support of the fabrication of the transcendent in its different modes, all of which, according to Diotima, come under the same propaedeutic: love of beauty.
- Her method, then, is not a propaedeutic of the destruction or the destructuration of two terms in order to establish a synthesis that is neither one nor the other.
- His reading thus provides us with a propaedeutic to the memorial potential of art after Auschwitz.
OriginLate 18th century: from pro- ‘before’ + Greek paideutikos ‘of or for teaching’, suggested by Greek propaideuein ‘teach beforehand’. |