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Using questions and answers particularly for instruction concerning doctrine, discipline and morals pertaining to admission to a church.

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  • The instruction was almost altogether catechetical, that is, questions on prescribed lessons in the text-books.
  • I learned the joy of the sound of the word "catechetical" from this book, and that it meant having to do with instruction in the faith.
  • The "catechetical" schools, also under the bishop's supervision, prepared young clerics for the priesthood.
  • On such a basis, moral education is inevitably reduced to some kind of catechetical instruction, or lessons about morals.
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