catechize
Example Sentences
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When people have not been catechized into a particular theology of political engagement, there’s a real opportunity for teaching in the principles of the faith in this arena of life.
From Washington Post
Ignoring this threat, Pan — a sybaritic aesthete by his very nature — gently catechizes about hedonism like some goat-footed Oscar Wilde.
From Washington Post
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
Fletcher, however, still found means to catechize the children and to hold meetings in private.
From Project Gutenberg
I must catechize you for it, madonna: Good my mouse of virtue, answer me.
From Project Gutenberg
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