catechize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Emma Helen Blair

Let a person catechize his own experiences on this subject: it will have a salutary effect.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill

Her Form mates, more inquisitive than Miss Gibbs, gathered round her and began to catechize.

From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon

Miss Patty left the millionaire Mr. Bragg in the lurch, and began to catechize Theodore on the subject of the Cheffington family.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Frances Eleanor Trollope

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

On our way I catechized Agnes Anne tightly as to the nature of the danger which had put her so suddenly in fear.

From The Dew of Their Youth 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

What is the use of your preaching sermons and catechizing the young, if the Bible at home is a sufficient guide for your people?

From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

I flared with a childish resentment at this catechizing of his.

From Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories by Joseph Lewis French

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

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