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
Miss Jane sighed and rolled up her eyes, and then the two commenced a vigorous catechizing of the little girl.
From A World of Girls The Story of a School by L. T. Meade
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
But they have been to a Jewish catechizing; to be examined in the Jews' Scriptures, you know, and all that.
From Trading by Susan Warner
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 Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
