catechize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Objection 1: It seems that it does not belong to a priest to catechize and exorcize the person to be baptized.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Schools and confraternities were established everywhere throughout the diocese, and on his pastoral visits he would catechize the children himself to see that they were properly instructed in the faith.

From Pope Pius the Tenth by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)

He; was ordered to subject and catechize the natives.

From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Means, Philip Ainsworth

Her Form mates, more inquisitive than Miss Gibbs, gathered round her and began to catechize.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol

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

In the afternoon the exercises at the meeting house were conducted by Preston, who publicly catechized the negroes very much in the manner that is practised in Northern Sunday schools.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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

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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

I had once more won the great prize in the world's lottery, and I never ceased catechizing myself in what way I should exercise my power.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

He realized that, besides the Large Catechism, parents were in need of a text-book containing questions and answers, adapted for catechizing the children on the meaning of each part of the Catechism.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)