[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That teaches, or has the quality or function of teaching.
1853. J. Cumming, Foreshadows, vii. (1854), 188. The great typical and teaching disease.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 217. Differences of opinion between the teaching and the medical professions.
1899. Daily News, 19 April, 3/5. What was needed was teaching sermons.
Mod. To change the University of London from a merely examining into a teaching university.
Hence Teachingly adv. rare, in a way that teaches, instructively.
1870. Spurgeon, Treas. David, Ps. xxx. 7. How touchingly and teachingly God corrected his servant’s mistake.
