• (v. t.) To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith. • (v. t.) To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct.Catechise: word... Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/catechise/
Cat'e·chise transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Catechised ; present participle & verbal noun Catechising .] [ Latin catechizare , Greek ..., equiv. to ... to resound, sound a thing into one's ears, impress it upon one by... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/36