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
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
And he set himself at once, not to catechize the bank's ward about her expenditures, but to interest the girl in himself.
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
Fletcher, however, still found means to catechize the children and to hold meetings in private.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald
"I have no right to catechize Lady Gwendolen," said he.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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
He did not see any reason, he said, why the U.S. people had to be catechized on this every morning before breakfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was catechized at the consulate when trying to get a passport for the United States, and it came out then that there was no Peter Storm on board the Lusitania.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
I am not catechizing you,' said Pitt, half laughing.
From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
But they have been to a Jewish catechizing; to be examined in the Jews' Scriptures, you know, and all that.
From Trading by Susan Warner
This morning the father, the Rev. Henry Erskine, has been catechizing a group of children at the kirk.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Frank Boreham
In preaching, catechizing, visiting, and holding religious meetings he was indefatigable, and spared no pains to guard his people from doctrinal error or spiritual decline.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald
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