catechizing

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A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2018

She leaned down from the saddle and rested both hands on my shoulders: "Have you no better way to please than in catechizing me, John Drogue?" she laughed.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

They were to spend themselves in the service of their neighbor, instructing, catechizing and exhorting; and they were to take nothing in return for their labors.

From Life of St. Vincent de Paul by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)

But they have been to a Jewish catechizing; to be examined in the Jews' Scriptures, you know, and all that.

From Trading by Warner, Susan

A sturdy catechizing in the interest of some popular dogma will generally give the casuist an apparent advantage over the seeker of knowledge for itself alone.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various