catechetics
English
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editcatechetics (uncountable)
- Religious teaching, especially that given to children before confirmation.
- (archaic) The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.
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editreligious teaching
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science or practice
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “catechetics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)