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Webster 1913 Edition
Catechism
1.
A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.
2.
A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.
The Jews, even till this day, have their
catechisms
. Hooker.
The Larger Catechism
, The Shorter Catechism
See
Westminster Assembly
, under Assembly
.Webster 1828 Edition
Catechism
CATECHISM
,Noun.
1.
A form of instruction by means of questions and answers, particularly in the principles of religion.2.
An elementary book containing a summary of principles in any science or art, but appropriately in religion, reduced to the form of questions and answers, and sometimes with notes, explanations, and references to authorities.Definition 2024
catechism
catechism
English
Alternative forms
- categise (eye dialect, archaic, rare)
Noun
catechism (plural catechisms)
- A book, in question and answer form, summarizing the basic principles of Christianity.
- A basic manual in some subject.
- A set of questions designed to determine knowledge.
- 1925, Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel
- Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
- To catechism by a mind too strewn
- With petty cares to slightly understand
- What awful brain compels His awful hand.
- 1925, Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel
Related terms
Translations
book summarizing the principles of Christianity
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External links
- catechism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- catechism in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911