catechize — Английский словарь

Глагол

1. To give oral instruction, especially of religion; (specifically) by the formal question-and-answer method; in the Church of England and Roman Catholic Church, to teach the catechism as preparation for confirmation.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

2. To question at length.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (2)

   She promised herself to ascertain thoroughly, after they should be comfortably settled in the ship, the animus with which the book was to be written. She was a very good sailor and she liked to talk at sea; there her husband would not be able to escape from her, and she foresaw the manner in which she should catechise him.

   Putting a strong American inflection into the French which I usually talked with an unmistakable British accent, I catechised the Baron as to the date of the church's building, its dimensions, and other details which an American tourist would be certain to want to know.

Глагол

1. examine through questioning and answering

   Синонимы

   catechise

   Более общие понятия

   examine

2. give religious instructions to

   Синонимы

   catechise

   Более общие понятия

   teachlearninstruct