catechize

Example Sentences

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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

Whatever the cause was, her momentary sense of relief that her father was not going to catechize her was followed by a feeling that she almost wished he would.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

But the worst will be to catechize us as if we were witnesses in court.

From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Miss Patty left the millionaire Mr. Bragg in the lurch, and began to catechize Theodore on the subject of the Cheffington family.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

And he proceeded to catechize and badger them one by one, filling page after page of his notebook with their replies.

From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Cornell, Frederick