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
Surely," he exclaimed hastily, "I've no right to catechize you.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
Her Form mates, more inquisitive than Miss Gibbs, gathered round her and began to catechize.
From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon
But the worst will be to catechize us as if we were witnesses in court.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
You catechize me too closely," replied Netz, confused, "tell me rather--to come to something else--what is the matter between you and Christopher Friend?
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Carl Franz van der Velde
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
"Who was your father?" the old woman catechized him.
From The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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 nothing of all this when you went to the catechizing?"
From Trading by Susan Warner
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 B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
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