catechize
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Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, you needn't catechize me!" he said, nettled by her tone, "or not in that way, at any rate.
From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The Giggleswick Statutes set it forth that the Master shall instruct his scholars—for more knowledge of the Liberal Sciences and catechize them every week in the knowledge of Christian Religion.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
But the worst will be to catechize us as if we were witnesses in court.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
He; was ordered to subject and catechize the natives.
From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means
I was, in my view, blessed to be raised in the church and catechized as a little kid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
“This exchange had catechized Julian on several points,” Ava thinks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2020
While they ate, they catechized her on her opinions, and were delighted to find that she believed in God and expected to vote Conservative when she was twenty-one.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2012
Periodically, eleven-year-old Martin Bach is catechized by his grandmother.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had already guessed what Zureda was going to ask him, and the idea of being catechized revolted his pride.
From Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
They ceased catechizing their teacher, and behaved with some approach to decent order.
From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
After catechizing Kermode severely, she gave a very qualified assent; and returning to the hotel, he found the girl anxiously waiting for him.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by W. Herbert Dunton
He was becoming very uneasy under this rigid catechizing, and hoped she would not ask any more questions about Lilian Ashford.
From The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer by Oliver Optic
“Quite often,” and she sat down, knowing the catechizing would be likely to continue for some minutes.
From The Fifth String by John Philip Sousa
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