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
After Supper he went Home, and then Mrs. Jewkes began to catechize me, about my Familiarity with him.
From An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews by Conny Keyber
But the worst will be to catechize us as if we were witnesses in court.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
You catechize me too closely," replied Netz, confused, "tell me rather--to come to something else--what is the matter between you and Christopher Friend?
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Carl Franz van der Velde
And he proceeded to catechize and badger them one by one, filling page after page of his notebook with their replies.
From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Cornell
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
Dr. G. A. Huntley of the Chinese mission field asserted that 49 out of 50 missionaries in China would resign rather than submit to being catechized as to their faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
They ought to have been catechized, it seems, when they were younger; but David and Judy have been travelling about and there has been no chance.
From Trading by Susan Warner
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
This custom, long fallen into disuse, has largely been revived during recent years, the children going to church for a special afternoon service of which catechizing is the chief feature.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Miss Jane sighed and rolled up her eyes, and then the two commenced a vigorous catechizing of the little girl.
From A World of Girls The Story of a School by L. T. Meade
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
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
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