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
And thus it belongs to the ministers to catechize.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 Robert J. C. Stead
To his great relief, Miss Dickenson did not catechize him closely about his religious views.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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
Dr. G. A. Huntley of the Chinese mission field asserted that 49 out of 50 missionaries in China would resign rather than submit to being catechized as to their faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had found both, as it were dropped from heaven, in a corner of his stable, but Tam Eident, whom he had carefully catechized, knew nothing about the matter.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
He absolutely could not leave off catechizing her.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
After catechizing Kermode severely, she gave a very qualified assent; and returning to the hotel, he found the girl anxiously waiting for him.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by W. Herbert Dunton
But she doesn't fancy catechizing him about his experiences in the night, neither.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
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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