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Catechise v. t. (past & past part. catechised; pres. part. catechising)

To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, esp. in regard to points of religious faith.

To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct.

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Etymology of 'Catechise'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Catechise" Quotes from Famous Books

... the age, into gifts of party favour, and bribes for the toleration of what is withheld; and as knowledge proceeds to extort public education (for extort it it will, and in its own way too at last), mark, and see what attempts will be made to turn knowledge against itself, and to catechise the nation back into the schoolboy acquiescence of the good people of Germany. Much good is there in that people—I would not be thought to undervalue it—much bonhommie—and in the most despotic districts, as much sensual comfort as can make any people happy who know no other happiness. But England ...

— Captain Sword and Captain Pen - A Poem • Leigh Hunt

... a neighboring village," said the peasant, "will be here to-day to catechise my child. He teaches school, and I think you can make an ...

— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various

... in its furtherance you can do no wrong—cannot even be unmannerly. It is this that has made you so beloved in the Republics; but how does your attitude hold good with me? I am a loyal British subject, living at peace with all men in a British colony. What right, therefore, have you to catechise me as to my goings and comings? I do not even live within the legitimate area of your so-called just war. I am only exposed to its rigours—that is, as far as the insolence of those who should be our defenders affects us women—because ...

— On the Heels of De Wet • The Intelligence Officer

... were forcibly reminded of the Oregon emigrants, though these unwelcome visitors had a certain glitter of the eye, and a compression of the lips, which distinguished them from our old acquaintances of the prairie. They began to catechise us at once, inquiring whence we had come, what we meant to do next, and what were ...

— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... so much as that about it," said Clemence, indifferently, "and I am not sufficiently well acquainted with the gentleman in question, to catechise ...

— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock

Words linked to "Catechise" : catechize, instruct, catechism, learn, teach