catechetically

English

Etymology

Adverb

catechetically (not comparable)

In a catechetical manner; by catechesis
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) by question and answer.
- 1854, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Collegiate and Professorial Teaching and Discipline, in an Answer to Professor Vaughan's Strictures ..., page 6:
  If the professors were to teach catechetically, it would be (as far as relates to intellectual instruction) but a question of words. They would be so far "Tutors" under another name.
- 1989, Morris Beja, Shari Benstock, Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 221:
  In the midst of a catechetically structured recital of the ills to which life is subject, "Ithaca"'s narrator asks, Did Stephen participate in his dejection?
- 2008, Gregg A. Hecimovich, Puzzling the Reader: Riddles in Nineteenth-century British Literature, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 25:
  Even where the audience knows the answers and recites them catechetically, the question-and-answer pattern reactivates the sense of wonder at again bringing the diverse elements of the world together, replaying the primal educational scene in which the correspondences and continuities were first dramatized

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “catechetically”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)