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Catechetical

Catechetic \Cat`e*chet"ic\, Catechetical \Cat`e*chet"ic*al\, a. Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.

Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing.
--Addison.

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catechetical

a. Of or pertaining to catechesis.

WordNet
catechetical

adj. of or relating to or involving catechesis [syn: catechetic]

Usage examples of "catechetical".

Yet, if truth be told, she had no interest in Macrina's The Catechetical Orations or in the Lives of the early saints.

And yet, Origen was a Christian (by the age of eighteen he was already head of the Catechetical School in Alexandria), and thus constrained to some degree by Scripture.