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Catechetical   Listen
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Catechetical, Catechetic  adj.  Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. "Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Catechetical" Quotes from Famous Books



... real anticipation of the use of raised letters for the blind? What would be the use of a knowledge of the alphabet so acquired in obtaining that skill in geometry, rhetoric, arithmetic, and music for which he was famous? He owed to Athanasius his position as head of the Catechetical ...
— Game and Playe of the Chesse - A Verbatim Reprint Of The First Edition, 1474 • Caxton

... was a Congregational minister, I believe Aunt Harriet, though the highest of High Church women, felt some scruples as to whether it was desirable that my religious education should be entirely out of the sphere of my birth. Therefore when this catechetical exercise was finished she would say, 'Now, niece, you have to learn another catechism, because your father is a Presbyterian minister,'—and then she would endeavor to make me commit to memory ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe



Words linked to "Catechetical" :   catechetic, theology, divinity, catechesis, catechetical instruction



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