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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
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catechize
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Definition:1. To instruct by asking questions, receiving answeres, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.2. 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.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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There the strangely matched pair settled down quietly enough to their work of teaching and catechizing, for the mission had already been started by the native evangelist, and many of the people were fairly ready to hear and accept the new religion.
Grant Allen. Strange Stories.
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She has been praying, preaching, and catechising among the methodists, with whom this country abounds; and pretends to have such manifestations and revelations, as even Clinker himself can hardly believe, though the poor fellow is half crazy with enthusiasm.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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"I was speaking generally. Why do you catechise me about Sir James? It is not the object of his life to please me."
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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while Jones was examining his boy in whispers in an inner room, Partridge, who had no such delicacy in his disposition, was in the kitchen very openly catechising the other guide who had attended Mrs Fitzpatrick;
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, Foundling
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