catechize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 White, William Allen

Fletcher, however, still found means to catechize the children and to hold meetings in private.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.

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)

Well, you needn't catechize me!" he said, nettled by her tone, "or not in that way, at any rate.

From Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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

Gazing at her earnestly, there was nothing in her expression at present to suggest any emotion save a natural annoyance at being catechized.

From The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor by Vandercook, Margaret

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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

They ceased catechizing their teacher, and behaved with some approach to decent order.

From Loyal to the School by Brazil, Angela

Evelyn seems to have got off with only a severe catechizing; but many of his fellow-worshippers were imprisoned, and otherwise severely punished.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 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 Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)