catechize AmE
catechise BrE

I will catechize the world for him; that is, make questions and by them answer.

Then he began to catechize Mary about the prophecy she was to make.

"You're thinking like nature," he says as though he were catechizing his guest.

"Well, go ahead and catechize Topsy; may be you'll make out something yet."

To catechize means to teach: more specifically, to teach by word of mouth.

One can only catechize a developmentally disabled person on the basis of the experience the person has.

And long after she had gone to bed, and sleep would not come, she continued thus to catechize herself.

You've no right to catechize me about where I go or what I do.'

The abbot lifted his head, beginning to understand; and Matt hurried on before the knight could start catechizing.

When Eugenio was young boy, he undertook to catechize the five-year old boy.

Just after 5, Teperman, without pausing in his work, began catechizing a medical student who had been observing the operation.

I must catechize you for it, madonna.

Some said that the police officers have been much too macho and intrusive, catechizing guarded and fragile people rather than courting them.

Together with the cathedral the university was at the center of a large operation developed to catechize the Comechingones and other Indians.

He stood there as if he were waiting for her to search him, catechize him, leam the truth.

The Mercedarios is one of the religious orders that came to catechize the conquered peoples in Peru.

Nóbrega and his men began catechizing and baptizing the natives upon their arrival in Brazil.

'Nor am I catechizing you.

Through his experience catechizing children, Evely learned how to present the message of the gospel with a simplicity for which he was later to acquire renown.

He therefore heard (or guessed) those principles of courtesan education in which Senor de Salazar had tried to catechize Roberto.

The monks were engaged in primary evangelization of local non-Christians, while also catechizing the local Christian community.

"I shall catechize him most penetratingly on the matter, Your Grace - just as soon as I have the opportunity.'

He encouraged priests to proclaim the gospel openly, to catechize their parishioners, to begin parochial schools and to take care that they raise a new generation with virtues.

He lived in a sea cave in Manapad, intensively catechizing Paravar children for three months in 1544 .

Jamie was catechizing the man about the personnel and structure of the Bruja-for so the ship that had attacked us had been-but I was paying no attention.