- To teach the principles of Christian dogma, discipline, and ethics by means of questions and answers.
- To question or examine closely or methodically: "Boswell was eternally catechizing him on all kinds of subjects" (Thomas Macaulay).
[Middle English catecizen, from Old French catechiser, from Medieval Latin catēchizāre, from Late Greek katēkhizein, from Greek katēkhein : kata-, down, off, out; see cata- + ēkhein, to sound (from ēkhē, sound).]
catechization cat'e·chi·za'tion (-kĭ-zā'shən) n.catechizer cat'e·chiz'er n.
