catechizing

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

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2018

But they have been to a Jewish catechizing; to be examined in the Jews' Scriptures, you know, and all that.

From Trading by Warner, Susan

"There was nothing of all this when you went to the catechizing?"

From Trading by Warner, Susan

Miss Jane sighed and rolled up her eyes, and then the two commenced a vigorous catechizing of the little girl.

From A World of Girls The Story of a School by Meade, L. T.

A sturdy catechizing in the interest of some popular dogma will generally give the casuist an apparent advantage over the seeker of knowledge for itself alone.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various