Definition of catechise Catechise
cat•e•chise
We found 6 definitions of catechise from 4 different sources.
Advertising
What does catechise mean?
WordNet
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- catechise (v. t.)
To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith. - catechise (v. t.)
To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
-
catechise
kat′e-kīz, v.t. to instruct by question and answer: to question as to belief: to examine systematically, to take to task.—adjs. Catechet′ic, -al, relating to a catechism or oral instruction in the first principles, esp. of Christianity.—adv. Catechet′ically.—ns. Catechet′ics, the art or practice of teaching by question and answer: that part of theology which treats of Catechē′sis, or primary oral instruction, as that given to catechumens; Cat′echiser; Cat′echising, an examination by questioning; Cat′echism, any compendious system of teaching drawn up in the form of question and answer; Cat′echist, one who catechises, a teacher of catechumens, a native teacher in a mission church.—adjs. Catechist′ic, -al, Catechis′mal, pertaining to a catechist or catechism. [L. catechismus, formed from Gr. katēchiz-ein, katēche-ein, to din into the ears—kata, down, ēchē, a sound.]
Part of speech
🔤- catechise, verb, present, 1st person singular of catechise (infinitive).
- catechise, verb (infinitive).
