Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or in the style of a catechism; interrogatory; catechizing; catechetical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
catechism ; having the form ofquestions andanswers ; catechical.
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- adjective of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity
Etymologies
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Examples
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My ideas about teaching based on a catechismal approach to drugs in general, rather than cataloguing drugs in particular, turned out to have too many curricular difficulties.
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Indeed, of this catechismal number the oldest was but fifteen years of age, and the youngest a nursing babe of six months.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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Reuben holds too much in dread the old catechismal dogmas and the ultimate "anathema maran-atha."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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Through the medium of easily sung catechismal hymns the doctrines and the principal events of the life of Christ and those of the saints were impressed upon the minds of the people.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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(15 April, 1905) he treated of the necessity of catechismal instruction, not only for children, but also for adults, giving detailed rules, especially in relation to suitable schools for the religious instruction of students of the public schools, and even of the universities.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Renan says, in his _Life of Jesus_, that "were Jesus to return amongst us He would recognise as His disciples, not those who imagine they can compress Him into a few catechismal phrases, but those who labour to carry on His work."
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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Renan says, in his _Life of Jesus_, that "were Jesus to return amongst us He would recognise as His disciples, not those who imagine they can compress Him into a few catechismal phrases, but those who labour to carry on His work."
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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Renan says, in his _Life of Jesus_, that "were Jesus to return amongst us He would recognise as His disciples, not those who imagine they can compress Him into a few catechismal phrases, but those who labour to carry on His work."
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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The rock I split against is the want of that which has vanished within me, thereby freeing my thoughts, but bringing instead of it the mortal disease that has become my tragedy; it is the catechismal simplicity of the soul.
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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At the approach of danger they shelter themselves behind the fortifications of simple faith and catechismal truth, which strong feeling might force to surrender, but reasoning, never.
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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