Catechizes vs Catechises - What's the difference?
catechizes | catechises |
(catechize)
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To give oral instruction, especially of religion; now specifically by the formal question-and-answer method; in the Church of England, to teach the catechism as preparation for confirmation.
To question at length.
*1888 , , The Modern Warning .
*:She promised herself to ascertain thoroughly, after they should be comfortably settled in the ship, the animus with which the book was to be written. She was a very good sailor and she liked to talk at sea; there her husband would not be able to escape from her, and she foresaw the manner in which she should catechise him.
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia :
As verbs the difference between catechizes and catechises
is that catechizes is (catechize) while catechises is .catechizes
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Verb
(head)catechize
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Alternative forms
* (UK ) catechiseVerb
(catechiz)- Putting a strong American inflection into the French which I usually talked with an unmistakeable British accent, I catechized the Baron as to the date of the church's building, its dimensions, and other details which an American tourist would be certain to want to know.