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
There it was that steps were taken to catechize the masses of the Filipinos in their own homes.
From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by St. Clair, Francis
It appears that Mr. Jacques is to say who can see the Secretary; and to do this, he must catechize each applicant as to the nature of his business.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
If from these lists you wander as you steer, Look back, and catechize your actions here.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
"I have no right to catechize Lady Gwendolen," said he.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
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
He did not see any reason, he said, why the U.S. people had to be catechized on this every morning before breakfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was catechized at the consulate when trying to get a passport for the United States, and it came out then that there was no Peter Storm on board the Lusitania.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
Were any of you born in New England, in the good old catechizing, church-going, school-going, orderly times?
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
They ceased catechizing their teacher, and behaved with some approach to decent order.
From Loyal to the School by Brazil, Angela
A short service, in which the Dyaks respond heartily, and a catechizing follows, during which they are allowed to ask questions of their teacher.
From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette
"There was nothing of all this when you went to the catechizing?"
From Trading by Warner, Susan
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