catechize
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
After Supper he went Home, and then Mrs. Jewkes began to catechize me, about my Familiarity with him.
From An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews by Conny Keyber
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 Frances Eleanor Trollope
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
Several of the catechized broke down, one wept convulsively.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this time, anyhow, I felt I had catechized Slim long enough, so I broke off and said: “What can Wag be doing all this while?”
From The Five Jars by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
He absolutely could not leave off catechizing her.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
The virtuoso Stamitz was to give one in Le Baut's garden.–"O, better earlier, even to dinner!"–"And to my forenoon sermon, if he will not come to the children's catechizing."
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
“Quite often,” and she sat down, knowing the catechizing would be likely to continue for some minutes.
From The Fifth String by John Philip Sousa
One insists upon catechizing him as to dates, another as to his veterinary knowledge--there is only wanting that I should attack him about culinary lore.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
Vocabulary lists containing catechize
