catechize

Example Sentences

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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

"I have no right to catechize Lady Gwendolen," said he.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

It was his habit to walk when he talked, and he knew the general had come to catechize him.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen

But the worst will be to catechize us as if we were witnesses in court.

From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

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 Herrick, Robert