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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catechumen \Cat"e*chu`men\, n. [L. catechumenus, Gr. kathchoy`menos instructed, from kathchei^n. See Catechise.] (Eccl.) One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"new convert," 15c., from French catéchumène, from Church Latin catechumenus, from Greek katekhoumenos "one being instructed," passive present participle of katekhein (see catechesis).
Wiktionary
n. A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism; a young Christian preparing for confirmation.
WordNet
n. a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist [syn: neophyte]
Wikipedia
In ecclesiology, a catechumen (; via Latin catechumenus from Greek κατηχούμενος katēkhoumenos, "one being instructed", from κατά kata, "down" and ἦχος ēkhos, "sound") is a person receiving instruction from a catechist in the principles of the Christian religion with a view to baptism. The title and practice is most often used by Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Orthodox, Reformed/Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic Christians. Ecumenical organisations such as the North American Association for the Catechumenate are helping to, across several denominations, "shape ministries with adult seekers involving an extended time of faith formation and a meaningful experience of adult baptism at Easter."
Catechumen is a 3D Roman first-person shooter video game developed by the now defunct N'Lightning Software and released in 2000. Catechumen is one of the highest budgeted Christian video games ever created. N'Lightning Software spent nearly $830,000 in the development of Catechumen, although the game's disappointing sales along with its spiritual successor released in 2001, Ominous Horizons: A Paladin's Calling, eventually led to the company's disbandment.
According to N'Lightning Software's founder Ralph Bagley, investors were initially hesitant to fund Catechumen until after the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999. The two perpetrator's tendencies to play violent video games made a lower-violence video game alternative appealing to investors.
Usage examples of "catechumen".
His master, on the other hand, scrutinized the murals carefully, and blessed his companions with a running commentary on the Mission of Art, replete with many citations from the ancients, the essential thrust of which was that Paul Gauphin was an arrant alphabetarian, a nugatory neophyte, a coarse catechumen, a posturing parvenu who thought to conceal his blatant ignorance of the classic methods of proportion, line, perspective and portraiture by his extravagant colorism, the which was nothing but a maneuver to dupe his patrons by passing off crudity as primitivism.
When the services and prayers were ended, the Catechumens and spectators all withdrew.
While still a catechumen at the Obtrank Normalcy I made a mark with the purity of my logic.
In this stage of their progress they were called catechumens, of whom, according to Suicer, there were two classes,-one called ‘Audientes,’ who had only entered upon their course, and begun to hear the word of God.
When the catechumens had given full proof of the ripeness of their knowledge, and of the stedfastness of their faith, they were baptized, admitted to the table of the Lord, and styled Fideles.
Pusey in a note remarks, was delivered orally to the catechumens to commit it to memory, and by them delivered back, i.
It was only as competentes, and ready for baptism, that the catechumens were taught the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed.
On the vigil of Easter, the solemn administration of baptism was rudely interrupted by the soldiers, who alarmed the modesty of the naked catechumens, and violated, by their presence, the awful mysteries of the Christian worship.
From the very first catechumens were exorcised as a preparation for the Sacrament of Baptism.