catechizing

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A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2018

She leaned down from the saddle and rested both hands on my shoulders: "Have you no better way to please than in catechizing me, John Drogue?" she laughed.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

New girls must expect a little wholesome catechizing before they were admitted into the bosom of their Form.

From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela

They ceased catechizing their teacher, and behaved with some approach to decent order.

From Loyal to the School by Brazil, Angela

The virtuoso Stamitz was to give one in Le Baut's garden.–"O, better earlier, even to dinner!"–"And to my forenoon sermon, if he will not come to the children's catechizing."

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul