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
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
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 Frederick Cornell
Schools and confraternities were established everywhere throughout the diocese, and on his pastoral visits he would catechize the children himself to see that they were properly instructed in the faith.
From Pope Pius the Tenth by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
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
Periodically, eleven-year-old Martin Bach is catechized by his grandmother.
From Time Magazine Archive
"What are you doing with Sidney's coat over your arm?" she catechized me sharply.
From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
Supper over and the table cleared, he decided on further catechizing little Vada on points that still were a mystery to him.
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum
The virtuoso Stamitz was to give one in Le Baut's garden.–"O, better earlier, even to dinner!"–"And to my forenoon sermon, if he will not come to the children's catechizing."
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
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
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 Henriette McDougall
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