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Definition of Catechisms
1. catechism [n] - See also: catechism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catechisms
Literary usage of Catechisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Creeds of Christendom: With a History and Critical Notes by Philip Schaff (1919)
"Mr. John Laing, the obliging librarian of the Free Church College in Edinburgh,
informs me that both catechisms appeared in one vol. of seventy-nine pages, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Early catechisms Based on Luther's Work (§ 3). Orthodox and Pietistic catechisms
firming children as a matter of course at the age of fourteen has led to ..."
3. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice by Foster Watson (1908)
"As to catechisms, it would be simply a huge task to enumerate the various editions
of the catechisms issued between 1540 and ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"Oliver and Hoyd"s catechisms. 12mo. Edinburgh : Oliver & Co. London : Simpkin & Co.
1831. No fewer than eleven of these catechisms now lie upon our table, ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1899)
"Tu K early New England catechisms—forerunners of the New England Primer—form
aI »much of the ... Notwithstanding tin- many catechisms that were printed, ..."
6. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"CHAPTER IX DIALOGUES, DEBATES, catechisms From the earliest times, ... In it,
through simple interchange of speech, or catechisms, or battle pieces after ..."
7. Bibliotheca Symbolica Ecclesiae Universalis: The Creeds of Christendom, with by Philip Schaff (1919)
"The Larger and Shorter catechisms often appeared in connection with the Westminster
Confession, and exist in innumerable English and American editions, ..."
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