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- noun One who catechises.
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- noun One who
catechises .
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Examples
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The Reverend Archibald Crane looked at his catechiser with a trace of alarm.
Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest Stewart Edward White 1909
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The reverend Archibald Crane looked at his catechiser with a trace of alarm.
The Call of the North Stewart Edward White 1909
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Wilkinson came with me to Barton and questioned me like a catechiser all the way.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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The employer said to the catechiser, 'You seem surprised at Thomas
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We took our places upon the bench, and the catechiser, when bade to begin, opened, after a little hesitation, as follows: --
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Indeed, the boy loved his catechiser so much that he would have subscribed to anything she bade him, and was never tired of listening to her fond discourse and simple comments upon the book, which she read to him in a voice of which it was difficult to resist the sweet persuasion and tender appealing kindness.
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Indeed, the boy loved his catechiser so much that he would have subscribed to anything she bade him, and was never tired of listening to her fond discourse and simple comments upon the book, which she read to him in a voice of which it was difficult to resist the sweet persuasion and tender appealing kindness.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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This kind of discourse I did not expect; nor am I disposed to give an answer to such questions, because I count not myself bound thereto, unless you take upon you to be a catechiser, and, though you should so do, yet I may refuse to make you my judge.
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This kind of discourse I did not expect; nor am I disposed to give an answer to such questions, because I count not myself bound thereto, unless you take upon you to be a catechiser, and, though you should so do, yet I may refuse to make you my judge.
The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan John Bunyan 1658
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This kind of discourse I did not expect; nor am I disposed to give an answer to such questions, because I count not myself bound thereto, unless you take upon you to be a catechiser, and, though you should so do, yet I may refuse to make you my judge.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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