a. and sb. [f. THEO- + Gr. διδακτ-ός taught.] a. adj. Taught by God. b. sb. One taught by God.
1712. A. Burgis, Annals of the Church, 223–4. Ammonius, Master of ’em both, was first a Corn-porter, but excell’d so much after he apply’d himself to Study, that we was call’d Theodidact, that is, taught by God.
1715. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. 66. Pretended Theodidacts, and sell-knowing Gnosticks.
1865. trans. Strauss’s New Life Jesus, I. I. xxx. 262. The young Theodidact was able … to give some advice to the most learned.
1894. Louise S. Houghton, trans. Sabatier’s St. Francis, Introd. 16. Owing nothing to church or schools he [St. Francis] was truly theodidact.
