different between catechism vs catechetic

English

Alternative forms

• categise (eye dialect, archaic, rare)

Etymology

From Late Latin catechismus, from Ancient Greek *?????????? (*kat?khismós), from ???????? (kat?khíz?, “to catechize”), a later extended form of ??????? (kat?khé?, “to catechize, instruct, teach by word of mouth”), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ???? (?khé?, “to sound, resound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæt??k?z?m/

Noun

catechism (plural catechisms)

1. A book, in question and answer form, summarizing the basic principles of Christianity.
2. A basic manual in some subject.
3. A set of questions designed to determine knowledge.
   • 1925, Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel

     Inscrutable His ways are, and immune

     To catechism by a mind too strewn

     With petty cares to slightly understand

     What awful brain compels His awful hand.

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Further reading

• catechism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• catechism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

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English

Alternative forms

• catechetick [17th–18th centuries]

Etymology

From the Latin cat?ch?ticus, from the Ancient Greek ??????????? (kat?kh?tikós), from ????????? (kat?kh?t?s, “oral instructor”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?'t?k??t?k, IPA^(key): /?kati??ki?t?k/

Adjective

catechetic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to catechesis.
2. In accordance with the catechism of a church.

Related terms

• catechetics (plurale tantum)

References

• “catechetic, a. and n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]