Catechizing Synonyms and Antonyms

Instruct and question
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. quizzing
  2. inquiring
  3. interrogating
Antonyms:
  1. listening
  2. answering
To instruct systematically
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. drilling
  2. educating
  3. training
  4. instructing
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Words Related to Catechizing

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Catechizing Sentence Examples

  • This custom, long fallen into disuse, has largely been revived during recent years, the children going to church for a special afternoon service of which catechizing is the chief feature.

  • Johnson hated to be questioned; and Boswell was eternally catechizing him on all kinds of subjects, and sometimes propounded such questions as, "What would you do, sir, if you were locked up in a tower with a baby ?"

  • The custom of catechizing, common to all civilized antiquity, was followed in the schools of Judaism and in the Early Church, where it helped to preserve the Gospel narrative (see Catechumen).

  • His preaching, his catechizing of the children after evensong, and his connexion with the Bala Methodists - his wife's stepfather being a Methodist preacher - gave great offence.

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