catechize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was his habit to walk when he talked, and he knew the general had come to catechize him.

From A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

To his great relief, Miss Dickenson did not catechize him closely about his religious views.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

And he set himself at once, not to catechize the bank's ward about her expenditures, but to interest the girl in himself.

From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick

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

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

Without appearing to do so, he catechized the cook, the butler, and Baptiste, the lodge-keeper, who had his meals at the manor-house with the servants.

From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

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

I had once more won the great prize in the world's lottery, and I never ceased catechizing myself in what way I should exercise my power.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

It has also been resolved that part of the Sabbath afternoon be devoted to catechizing, as is now common in many Protestant churches in Germany and Switzerland.

From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous

This morning the father, the Rev. Henry Erskine, has been catechizing a group of children at the kirk.

From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Frank Boreham