单词 | catechism |
释义 | catechismn.ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] catechism1502 catechise1552 catechizationa1559 catechizing1561 catechese1617 catechesis1753 carritch?1760 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. ii. sig. b.ii v That suffysed as now of ye exorcysme & cathecysme. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 407 The learners of Catechisme were dismissed after the Lessons that were read. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 223 To say I and no, to these particulars, is more then to answer in a Catechisme . View more context for this quotation 2. An elementary treatise for instruction in the principles of the Christian religion, in the form of question and answer; such a book accepted and issued by a church as an authoritative exposition of its teaching, as the Longer Catechism and Shorter Catechism, of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, used by the Presbyterian churches, etc.church catechism: see church n.1 and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > treatise used for catechism1518 catechise1552 catechismy1578 catechesis1753 1518 J. Colet Statuta Paulinae Scholae in J. H. Lupton Life Colet (1887) 277 The Maister shall..first se that they canne the cathechyzon... I will the Chyldren lerne ffirst aboue all the Cathechyzon in Englyshe. 1540 T. Cranmer title Catechismvs, That is to say, a shorte Instruction into Christian Religion for the synguler commoditie and profyte of children and yong people.] 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Confirmacion f. ix*v (heading) A Cathechisme, that is to say, an instruccion to bee learned of euery childe, before he be brought to be confirmed of the Bushop. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Prol. f. 3v Ane Catethisme [sic], yt is ane common instruction contenand schortly & plainly thai thingis quhilk ar necessary to yam to ken and keip, to the plesour of God & thair eternal saluation. 1597 Pilgrimage Parnassus iii. 354 Twoo or three hundreth of chatechismes of Jeneva's printe. 1648 (title) The Shorter Catechism, agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 31 That good, plain, unperplext Catechism, that is printed with the old Service Book. View more context for this quotation 1686 T. Ken Direct. Prayer 3 The Doctrine delivered in the Catechism. 1752 A. Mair title Brief Explication of the Assemblie's Shorter Catechism. 1841 R. W. Emerson Circles in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 315 We can never see Christianity from the catechism. 3. transferred. A book of instruction in other subjects by question and answer. (In 17th cent. chiefly applied to works which parodied the preceding; its serious use and general extension came later.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > [noun] > course of > book containing questionary?1541 catechism1627 1627 B. Jonson in M. Dratyon Battaile of Agincourt sig. A2 This booke! it is a Catechisme to fight, And will be bought of euery Lord, and Knight, That can but reade. 1643 P. Heylyn title The rebells catechisme. 1754 (title) The Freethinker's Catechism; that is to say an Instructor, to be learned by every Young Fellow, before he can know the world. 1795 J. Rose title A Constitutional Catechism, adapted to all ranks and capacities. 1806 Dalbiac title A Military Catechism for the use of young Officers. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 127 These examinations are to be..arranged in the order laid down in a ‘Military Catechism’ which is appended to the ‘Regulations’. 18.. W. Pinnock Catechisms of the Arts, Sciences, History, Religion, etc. 4. figurative. A course of question and answer; a series or form of interrogatories put to candidates, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > [noun] > course of catechism1598 catechizing1600 catechization1744 Q and A1837 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 140 Honor is a meere skutchion, and so ends my Catechisme . View more context for this quotation 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 327 The catechism by which the lords lieutenants had been directed to test the sentiments of the country gentlemen consisted of three questions. 1889 N.E.D. at Catechism Mod. The candidate met the electors and was put through his catechism. 5. attributive. ΚΠ 1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 167 A Catechisme Lecture of some two houres long. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1502 |
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