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CATECHESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catechesis mean? 

CATECHESIS (noun)
  The noun CATECHESIS has 1 sense:

1. oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation)play

  Familiarity information: CATECHESIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CATECHESIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("catechesis" is a kind of...):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

Derivation:

catechetic; catechetical (of or relating to or involving catechesis)


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