transitive verb. To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.

transitive verb. 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.

verb. Alternative spelling of catechize.

verb. give religious instructions to

verb. examine through questioning and answering

"He talked ambiguously, and was so apprehensive of what I might say that I had not the heart to catechise him."

catechised  catechising  

examine  instruct  learn  teach