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Catechist   Listen
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Catechist  n.  One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.






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"Catechist" Quotes from Famous Books



... description." The Indians told Sir Robert that, if a dog proved bad or useless, {207} he was not killed, but was left to die from sheer neglect. Hardly any nation is more barbarous than the Fuegians, but I hear from Mr. Bridges, the Catechist to the Mission, that, "when these savages have a large, strong, and active bitch, they take care to put her to a fine dog, and even take care to feed her well, that her young may be ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin

... Eustatia; saw an innumerable company of girls catechised, in many bodies, perhaps 100 to a catechist.—Boys taught at one time, girls at another.—The sermon; the preacher wears a cap, which he takes off at the name:—his ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell

... Sutherland, C-Y. 18 Kenacoil. Settled in Upper Canada in West Gwillimbury. He and his sister were children of James Sutherland, catechist ...
— The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists - The Pioneers of Manitoba • George Bryce



Words linked to "Catechist" :   catechism, teacher, instructor



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