catechize
/ˈkatɪkʌɪz
/(also catechise)
verb [with object]
1Instruct (someone) in the principles of Christian religion by means of question and answer, typically by using a catechism.The natural sorting process tells us something about how we need to catechize teenagers....
- To save Shaw from hell-fire, a friend prevailed on a Roman Catholic priest to catechize the upstart Atheist.
- I work in the beautiful new Cathedral, evangelizing and catechizing the children of two recently merged parish communities (one English, one Spanish).
1.1 figurative Put questions to or interrogate (someone): Mrs Garrowby had catechized her sister about this unknown quantity...
- From our earliest years, we are catechized into a civic faith: Competition brings out the best in us.
- Appalled by his indolence, gaming, and iconoclastic opinions, his psychology professor tried to catechize him: ‘Tut, tut, what does Saint Paul say, Mr. Crane?’
- None may chastise him for deviance (for there is none), nor catechize him about the path to take (for there are as many paths as there are seekers).
Derivatives
catechizer
/ noun ...- Thanks to the hard work of the missionaries and catechizers this situation is slowly changing.
- Thomas Wilkinson came with me to Barton and questioned me like a catechiser all the way.
- After his return to Cyprus, he worked as a preacher and catechizer in the Archdiocese.
Origin
Late Middle English: via late Latin from ecclesiastical Greek katēkhizein, from katēkhein 'instruct orally, make hear'.
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