catechize

Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat.

From Time Magazine Archive

You could not tell me her name: all you had to go on was a voice, and I could hardly catechize him on that.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird

In a moment the car was again in motion, but the driver, a man of fifty or thereabouts, found time to catechize his guest.

From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

But the dean kept Michal back in order to catechize her, and began to put various questions to her, which she answered so promptly and so correctly that he was perfectly delighted.

From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai

There it was that steps were taken to catechize the masses of the Filipinos in their own homes.

From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by Francis St. Clair

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

I catechized her, knowing that her word with Father was pretty well law.

From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018

This custom, long fallen into disuse, has largely been revived during recent years, the children going to church for a special afternoon service of which catechizing is the chief feature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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

A short service, in which the Dyaks respond heartily, and a catechizing follows, during which they are allowed to ask questions of their teacher.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

"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