catechize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There was service again in the afternoon, when the very reverend gentleman was wont to catechize.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

Therefore to catechize and to exorcize do not belong to the office of the priests, but rather to that of the ministers.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Once a year the minister comes to Miss Einarsen's to catechize the children; but Miss Einarsen always stands behind the one who is being questioned and whispers the right answer.

From What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself by Zwilgmeyer, Dikken

He has forbidden them to go out as they ought to the visitas, and to confess, preach, and catechize.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen

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

The pastors not only preached the gospel, but they visited the sick, catechized the children, admonished the erring, and labored to settle disputes and promote harmony and brotherly love.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon

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

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018

In preaching, catechizing, visiting, and holding religious meetings he was indefatigable, and spared no pains to guard his people from doctrinal error or spiritual decline.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.

Evelyn seems to have got off with only a severe catechizing; but many of his fellow-worshippers were imprisoned, and otherwise severely punished.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

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

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