catechize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Once a year the minister comes to Miss Einarsen's to catechize the children; but Miss Einarsen always stands behind the one who is being questioned and whispers the right answer.

From What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself by Dikken Zwilgmeyer

You could not tell me her name: all you had to go on was a voice, and I could hardly catechize him on that.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird

And he proceeded to catechize and badger them one by one, filling page after page of his notebook with their replies.

From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Cornell

The Giggleswick Statutes set it forth that the Master shall instruct his scholars—for more knowledge of the Liberal Sciences and catechize them every week in the knowledge of Christian Religion.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell

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

Periodically, eleven-year-old Martin Bach is catechized by his grandmother.

From Time Magazine Archive

While we were there, a large class of boys were being catechized, in the French tongue; again and again the answers would come in loud monotone.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by J. Harris (John Harris) Knowles

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

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018

They were to spend themselves in the service of their neighbor, instructing, catechizing and exhorting; and they were to take nothing in return for their labors.

From Life of St. Vincent de Paul by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes

He was becoming very uneasy under this rigid catechizing, and hoped she would not ask any more questions about Lilian Ashford.

From The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer by Oliver Optic

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 Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"There was nothing of all this when you went to the catechizing?"

From Trading by Susan Warner