catechize
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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
And he set himself at once, not to catechize the bank's ward about her expenditures, but to interest the girl in himself.
From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert
This said, he set himself to catechize me that same hour; and it came to pass that when he breathed on my face,790 straightway I felt better.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
There it was that steps were taken to catechize the masses of the Filipinos in their own homes.
From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by St. Clair, Francis
Surely," he exclaimed hastily, "I've no right to catechize you.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
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
Periodically, eleven-year-old Martin Bach is catechized by his grandmother.
From Time Magazine Archive
I catechized her, knowing that her word with Father was pretty well law.
From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
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 was becoming very uneasy under this rigid catechizing, and hoped she would not ask any more questions about Lilian Ashford.
From The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer by Optic, Oliver
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
Preaching and catechizing, fasting and thanksgiving, were duly observed.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter
I flared with a childish resentment at this catechizing of his.
From Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
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