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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
catechise .
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Examples
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It was she who studied maps, and catechised miners, and hammered geography and locations into his hollow head, till everybody marveled at his broad grasp of the country and knowledge of its conditions.
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And please, don't tell me that they are just "poorly catechised"; many of them are high-ranking members of the clergy.
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It was she who studied maps, and catechised miners, and hammered geography and locations into his hollow head, till everybody marveled at his broad grasp of the country and knowledge of its conditions.
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"You catechised me yesterday; to-night you shall answer."
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It was she who studied maps, and catechised miners, and hammered geography and locations into his hollow head, till everybody marveled at his broad grasp of the country and knowledge of its conditions ....
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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'Tis that which [3593] Hierom, which all the fathers inculcate, so we are catechised for eternity.
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Sometimes I wonder about daily reception, not to mention Sunday reception for those who rarely ever go to confession, or may not be properly catechised, much less prepared to communicate.
Archive 2006-08-20 Terry Nelson 2006
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I disagree, I believe that if people are properly catechised in the Tridentine rite they will come, and by droves.
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Sometimes I wonder about daily reception, not to mention Sunday reception for those who rarely ever go to confession, or may not be properly catechised, much less prepared to communicate.
More St. Pius the Tenth week thoughts... Terry Nelson 2006
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Marmaduke till after Easter, in the middle of April; but it was expected of him that, he should read blue-books without number, and he was so catechised by the working men that he almost began to wish himself back at the Mandarins.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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