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
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
But she doesn't fancy catechizing him about his experiences in the night, neither.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
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
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
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