What's the difference between catechise and catechism?

Catechise


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

Catechism


Definition:

  • (n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.
  • (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fact that the catechisms of health were written by physicians on the one hand and pedagogues on the other generated criticism.
  • (2) Hasn’t Trump shown himself to be hostile to free trade, a central aspect of the Reagan catechism?
  • (3) My auntie Nora combined gambling on the Irish sweepstakes with teaching me my catechism for my first Holy Communion.
  • (4) Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?” In its catechism, the Catholic church brands “homosexual acts … intrinsically disordered” and the pope, while encouraging a more welcoming stance towards gay people, has said nothing that deviates from that.
  • (5) For the Kesh Malek organisation, now based in southern Turkey, this is depressingly reminiscent of the old Ba’athist catechism.
  • (6) Although the catechisms of health (especially that of Bernhard Christoph Faust) were widespread--as is shown by the many editions and translations--it is very difficult to judge their effectiveness.
  • (7) Some extracts proceeding of these possess a bactericidal activity, specially if they contain polyphenols (flavonoids, catechics tanins), saponins and alkaloids.
  • (8) I could hardly step onto the roof without looking to the east and counting those flares like a catechism.
  • (9) Some extracts proceeding of these possess an antispasmodic activity, specially if they contain polyphenols (flavonoïds, catechics tanins), saponins and alkaloïds.
  • (10) That catechism however, also teaches that, "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered".
  • (11) At the start of a panic attack, you are supposed to commence the catechism: what am I afraid of?
  • (12) In his book, he said that the church had actually led him back to Catholicism, that without Christ Fellowship he would never have returned to the catechism.
  • (13) When interpreting, the analyst often subordinates image to idea, so that what emerges is treatise, polemic, or catechism-anything but revelation or a deeper vision.
  • (14) In addition, therapeutic agents for both physicians and elderly patients are presented in catechism.
  • (15) Medical matters were popularized in the eighteenth century on three main levels: the Moral Weeklies were directed at the educated public; there were various publications designed to instruct the masses; and the rural population and the young were reached by means of the catechisms of health.
  • (16) It's basically the school catechism that he is relying on.
  • (17) In opposing such antiquated practices as bleeding, purging, faith-healing and uroscopy, the catechisms were also an appropriate medium for promoting recent medical achievements (such as inoculation against small-pox and, later on, vaccination) which were customarily regarded with suspicion by the common people.
  • (18) Prostaglandins are known to: 1) stimulate uterine contraction; 2) inhibit spontaneous contraction of the rabbit uterus; 3) inhibit the respiratory smooth muscle of different animals; 4) lower systemic arterial blood pressure when injected intravenously; 5) stimulate contractions in isolateral segments of intestinal smooth muscle of most species investigated; 6) produce transient sedation when intravenously injected in cats, and 7) inhibit lipolysis induced by catechal amines, corticotrophin, glucagon and thyroid stimulating hormone.
  • (19) It has become something of a catechism to proclaim that homosexuality was introduced to Africans by European colonisers.
  • (20) "This chapel is a compendium of theology, a catechism in images.

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