Catechize

  

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Catechize

Definitions: Catechize

Catechize

Verb

1. Examine through questioning and answering.

2. Give religious instructions to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "catechize" was first used: sometime around 1425. (references)


Synonym: Catechize

Synonym: catechise (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Catechize

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inquiry

Catechize.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: Catechize

Language Translations for "catechize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

stërvit me pyetje-përgjigje, pyes hollësisht, mësoj me pyetje-përgjigje. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏علم بطريقة السؤال و الجوا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

катехизирам. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyslýchat (cross-examine, examine, interrogate, question, try). (various references)

   

French

  

catéchiser. (various references)

   

German

  

katechisieren. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατηχώ (catechise, prime, sermonize). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

katekizál. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atechizecay

   

Portuguese

  

catequizar, examinar (assay, canvass, check, check up on, cross, discussion, enquire, examine, explore, eye drops, go over, have out, inquire, inspect, look, look over, look through, overhaul, peruse, probe, question, quiz, run over, scan, test, traverse, turn out, verify, vet, view). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

catehiza. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

допрашивать (interrogate, question). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

katekizirati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

catequizar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

undervisa i katekesen, förhöra (examine, interrogate, question, quiz, test). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

soru-cevap yöntemiyle öğretmek, sorguya çekmek (cross-examine, draw, examine, give a grilling, grill, interrogate, query, question), ilmihal öğretmek. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

викладати у формі запитань і відповідей, викладати катехізис, наставляти (direct, moralize), повчати (edify, jaw, sermonize), допитувати (interrogate, question). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

holwyddori. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Catechize

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

katechizein. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

catecizat, catecizatur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Catechize

Derivations

Words beginning with "catechize": catechized, catechizer, catechizers, catechizes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Catechize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catechise, catechiz, catechizem, catechizm, catechizy, Cotehele, Madechie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Catechize"

Words rhyming with "catechize" (pronounced 'Cat"e*chize'): Elenchize. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Catechize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-i-t-z"

-3 letters: acetic, cachet, hectic, techie, thecae.

-4 letters: aitch, cache, cacti, catch, cheat, ethic, tache, teach, theca.

-5 letters: ache, cate, ceca, cete, chat, chez, chia, chic, chit, cite, each, eath, eche, etch, etic, haet, hate, haze, heat, itch, tace, tach, thae, thee, zeta.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-i-t-z"
 

+1 letter: catechized, catechizer, catechizes.

 

+2 letters: catechizers.

 

+3 letters: characterize, czarevitches, technicalize.

 

+4 letters: characterized, characterizes, technicalized, technicalizes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Catechize


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 74 65 63 68 69 7A 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    -    .    -.-.    ....    ..    --..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100011 01101000 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#99 &#104 &#105 &#122 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 0065 0063 0068 0069 007A 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

376786716974759271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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