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uncatechized, ppl. a.|ʌnˈkætɪkaɪzd|
[un-1 8.]
Not formally instructed or examined in religion. Also absol.
1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. (1630) 28 The manner of ascending to assurance of Election,..wherein..these men are yet uncatechized. 1667Decay Chr. Piety iii. §6. 218 But would God the uncatechiz'd were the only persons we had to complain of in this matter. 1685J. Scott Chr. Life ii. 137 The hair-brain'd and uncatechised youths of the Town. 1832Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt xvii. 237 They found six houses inhabited by uncatechised Guahiboes. 1842Pusey in Liddon Life (1893) I. xi. 258 It will be thrust on minds unprepared, and on an uncatechised Church.
Hence unˈcatechizedness.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. iv. xxiii. 619 What means the Uncatechisedness, the Sottishness, Profaneness, Impudence and Irreligion which are so much spreading and prevailing? |