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

One insists upon catechizing him as to dates, another as to his veterinary knowledge--there is only wanting that I should attack him about culinary lore.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

"There was nothing of all this when you went to the catechizing?"

From Trading by Warner, Susan

He was becoming very uneasy under this rigid catechizing, and hoped she would not ask any more questions about Lilian Ashford.

From The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer by Optic, Oliver

"Interest questions" are just what the words imply, and have about them no suspicion of the inquisitive and impertinent catechizing which only fools, and not even knaves, indulge in.

From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Conklin, Mary Greer