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

You catechize me too closely," replied Netz, confused, "tell me rather--to come to something else--what is the matter between you and Christopher Friend?

From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Carl Franz van der Velde

He has forbidden them to go out as they ought to the visitas, and to confess, preach, and catechize.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair

All the planters, questioned upon the subject, were willing to give the missionary access to their servants, to preach and catechize, not only on the Sabbath, but during the week.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

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

Consider the position analogous to that of one of Her Majesty's Ministers catechized by an impertinent demagogue.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

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

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018

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

But she doesn't fancy catechizing him about his experiences in the night, neither.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

And at last, when he had exhausted all this catechizing, he heaved a sigh and stopped abruptly.

From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

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 Angela Brazil