Meaning & use
Catechizing
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Instructing someone in the basic principles of a religion, typically through a formal system of questions and answers; more broadly, questioning someone closely and repeatedly.
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The priest spent months catechizing the new converts before their baptism.
Her father spent dinner catechizing her about where she'd been all night.
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Rooted in the Greek "katechein," meaning "to teach orally," the word originally referred strictly to religious instruction before gaining its broader, sometimes ironic, modern sense.
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