catechize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And thus it belongs to the ministers to catechize.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

In a moment the car was again in motion, but the driver, a man of fifty or thereabouts, found time to catechize his guest.

From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

Schools and confraternities were established everywhere throughout the diocese, and on his pastoral visits he would catechize the children himself to see that they were properly instructed in the faith.

From Pope Pius the Tenth by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes

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 Mór Jókai

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

So early in the morning was it and so unprepared were newsmen for such a development that Governor Young, unrecognized, entered and left the White House without being caught and catechized.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I have no doubt she catechized and cross-examined him in private.

From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird

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

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018

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

Preaching and catechizing, fasting and thanksgiving, were duly observed.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson

There was divine service in the temple at half-past ten A.M., conducted by the regular pastor, M. Schell, and instruction and catechizing of the children in the afternoon.

From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

“Quite often,” and she sat down, knowing the catechizing would be likely to continue for some minutes.

From The Fifth String by John Philip Sousa