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What does catechize mean?

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Verb
  1. To give oral instruction, especially of religion; now specifically by the formal question-and-answer method; in the Church of England, to teach the catechism as preparation for confirmation.
  2. To question at length.
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It was probably the general custom to catechize the children in the afternoon.
But the worst will be to catechize us as if we were witnesses in court.
How to catechize patience was the challenge that Cyprian and the other African church leaders faced.
He has forbidden them to go out as they ought to the visitas, and to confess, preach, and catechize.
Further, the economy of words and gestures in ritual speech serves to form and catechize in ways that formal discourse about this practice cannot.
Ena forgot for a moment that she badly needed help from her brother and began sharply to catechize him.

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