Catechism: Definition and part of speech

Catechism

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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