CATECHISE, verb transitive 1. To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections. 2. To question; to interrogate; to examine or try by questions, and sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting answers from a person, which condemn his own conduct. 3. Appropriately, to ask questions concerning the doctrines of the Christian religion; to interrogate pupils and give instruction in the principles of religion.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI