catechize
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Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was service again in the afternoon, when the very reverend gentleman was wont to catechize.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
This said, he set himself to catechize me that same hour; and it came to pass that when he breathed on my face,790 straightway I felt better.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
But the worst will be to catechize us as if we were witnesses in court.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
It was his habit to walk when he talked, and he knew the general had come to catechize him.
From A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White
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
He did not see any reason, he said, why the U.S. people had to be catechized on this every morning before breakfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this time, anyhow, I felt I had catechized Slim long enough, so I broke off and said: “What can Wag be doing all this while?”
From The Five Jars by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
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
“Quite often,” and she sat down, knowing the catechizing would be likely to continue for some minutes.
From The Fifth String by John Philip Sousa
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 Oliver Optic
"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 Mary Greer Conklin
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