catechizing
Example Sentences
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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
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
They were to spend themselves in the service of their neighbor, instructing, catechizing and exhorting; and they were to take nothing in return for their labors.
From Life of St. Vincent de Paul by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
His preaching, his catechizing of the children after evensong, and his connexion with the Bala Methodists—his wife’s step-father being a Methodist preacher—gave great offence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
They ceased catechizing their teacher, and behaved with some approach to decent order.
From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
