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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Catechise" Quotes from Famous Books

... in deep water, I had not acquired accuracy and expedition in giving the soundings. But I learned a great deal more of my profession; Bramble explaining to me the sails, rigging, and names and uses of the ropes, and the various maneuvers practiced, all of which he would catechise me in afterward, to ascertain if I was perfect, and had remembered what he told me. I was, therefore, under excellent tuition. Whatever port we entered Bramble would point out the landmarks to me, state the distances ...

— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat

... case they might be a foraging party. I reprimanded our people sharply for this act of folly, ordering them in future to reserve their fire, and when necessary to shoot into, not above, a crowd. After this we proceeded to catechise the strangers, suspecting them to be scouts, the usual forerunners of a Somali raid: the reply was so plausible that even the Balyuz, with all his acuteness, was deceived. The Bedouins had forged a report that their ancient enemy the Hajj Sharmarkay was awaiting with four ships at ...

— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

... and no wonder, with the heat and your long fast; lie down on your bed and rest till it be time to catechise the bairns— though I'm no' for Sabbath sleeping as an ordinary thing. Will you no' lie down? Well, you might step over as far as the pasture-bars and see if all is right with old Kelso and her foal, for here come the bairns and their mother, and there will be no ...

— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson

... such a "stand-and-deliver" attitude for the time being, and then, by way of getting square with the soldier for the sharply military way in which his duty as sentry had been performed, the captain proceeded to catechise him as to his orders. The soldier had been well taught, and knew all his "responses" by rote,—far better than Buxton, for that matter, as the latter was anything but an exemplar of perfection in tactics or sentry duty; but this did not prevent Buxton's snappishly ...

— The Deserter • Charles King

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