catechisms

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catechisms

  1. plural of catechism
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 94:
      "Thank goodness, I am not a child," said Lady Mandeville, turning over a collection of those juvenile tomes, which are to make the rising generation so much wiser than their grandfathers or grandmothers—catechisms of conchology, geology, mathematical questions for infants, geography, astronomy; "the child may be 'father to the man;' but the said father must have had some trouble with his offspring."

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