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cat·e·chize

(kăt′ĭ-kīz′)

tr.v. cat·e·chized, cat·e·chiz·ing, cat·e·chiz·es

1. To teach the principles of Christian dogma, discipline, and ethics by means of questions and answers.

2. 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).]

cat′e·chi·za′tion (-kĭ-zā′shən) n.

cat′e·chiz′er n.

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catechization

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A set of questions or exercises designed to determine knowledge or skill:

catechism, exam, examination, quiz, test.

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Mary Anne laid down her work, rose, hooked herself behind, as being under catechization, and replied: 'No, it is a corruption, Miss Peecher.'

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(51) At the Cadet Corps, the priest was supposed "not only to conduct the usual prayers with [the cadets] daily" but also to perform "catechization at the appointed hours." (52)

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His seemingly Catholic name was in fact a product of colonization and catechization of Jesuit schools.

Divine connection

It is directed towards an internal audience, aiming the catechization of their collaborators.

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Here in this tribe / Nobody wants your catechization / We may speak your

AFRICAN INDIGENOUS JUREMA: The Greatest Common Divisor of the Brazilian Minimum Religion

The upshots, her first US solo exhibition will no doubt demonstrate, are numerous, from a catechization of art's liaison with thrusting neoliberalism to a call for a reconsideration of belief--and its corollary, meekness--that feels quietly radical.

Andrea Buttner

Communication in the virtual space becomes successful in various areas, from domestic challenges to church mission and catechization. A nuanced approach, from the religious perspective, belongs to Liviu Vidican Manci.

A mythic-symbolic perspective on politics

The exhibition planners were also engaged in promoting various forms of Brazilian exoticism, but never without emphasizing their paternalistic "civilizing mission" and the ongoing "catechization" of the remaining "savages." In this sense, the images and texts displayed in Vienna also made it clear that the gradual emancipation of slaves had already begun and that Brazil's "peculiar institution" was not as inhumane as the international public may have thought.

"La busqueda de la perfeccion humana": Brasil en la exposicion Universal de Viena de 1873

They are given the illusion of hope that development is democratic, they are institutionalised and made to believe that they are to be 'equally' integrated, that they are going to belong to a system which belongs to others--the same lie underlying the processes of catechization during colonisation when those who could never be 'saved' had, controversially, to be Christianised.

'Dead words': translated literature against the social systems of domination/ 'Palavras mortas': literatura traduzida contra sistemas sociais de dominacao

The catechetical ministry of the church is extremely well developed, at the levels of both state education (through teaching of religious education in the secular schools as an obligatory subject) and church catechization. Social ministry is also thoughtfully and efficiently managed.