Meanings
- not comparableIn a catechetical manner; by catechesis
- not comparableBy question and answer.
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?
1989, Morris Beja, Shari Benstock, Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 2212 more examples
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.
1854, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Collegiate and Professorial Teaching and Discipline, in an Answer to Professor Vaughan's Strictures ..., page 6Even 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
2008, Gregg A. Hecimovich, Puzzling the Reader: Riddles in Nineteenth-century British Literature, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 25
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