catechize
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Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat.
From Time Magazine Archive
I must catechize you for it, madonna: Good my mouse of virtue, answer me.
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble
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
Therefore it belongs not to the priestly office to catechize and exorcize.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
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
The pastors not only preached the gospel, but they visited the sick, catechized the children, admonished the erring, and labored to settle disputes and promote harmony and brotherly love.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
But they have been to a Jewish catechizing; to be examined in the Jews' Scriptures, you know, and all that.
From Trading by Susan Warner
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
“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
But she doesn't fancy catechizing him about his experiences in the night, neither.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
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