catechize

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat.

From Time Magazine Archive

It appears that Mr. Jacques is to say who can see the Secretary; and to do this, he must catechize each applicant as to the nature of his business.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

But the dean kept Michal back in order to catechize her, and began to put various questions to her, which she answered so promptly and so correctly that he was perfectly delighted.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

Whatever the cause was, her momentary sense of relief that her father was not going to catechize her was followed by a feeling that she almost wished he would.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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