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
To his great relief, Miss Dickenson did not catechize him closely about his religious views.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
But the worst will be to catechize us as if we were witnesses in court.
From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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 Cornell, Frederick
In a moment the car was again in motion, but the driver, a man of fifty or thereabouts, found time to catechize his guest.
From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.
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
On our way I catechized Agnes Anne tightly as to the nature of the danger which had put her so suddenly in fear.
From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
Miss Jane sighed and rolled up her eyes, and then the two commenced a vigorous catechizing of the little girl.
From A World of Girls The Story of a School by Meade, L. T.
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 Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
He realized that, besides the Large Catechism, parents were in need of a text-book containing questions and answers, adapted for catechizing the children on the meaning of each part of the Catechism.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
Preaching and catechizing, fasting and thanksgiving, were duly observed.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter
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