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catechistical, a.|kætɪˈkɪstɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to the office, teaching, or method of instruction of a catechist, or of the catechism he expounds; consisting of question and answer. Cf. catechetical.
1618Hales Let. in Gold. Rem. (1688) 386 The custom is in Catechistical Sermons..to take..a portion of the Catechism for their Text and Theme. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 432 His flock was..well bottomed on catechistical divinity. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. i. i. (1852) 259 He thrice went over the body of divinity in a catechistical way. 1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVIII. 641 The catechistical method.
Hence cateˈchistically adv.
1645Ussher (title), A Body of Divinity, or The summe and substance of Christian Religion: Catechistically propounded and explained, by way of Question and Answer. 1692South Serm. VII. v. (R.) The principles of Christianity briefly and catechistically taught. |