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noun oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation)
originLearned borrowing from Latin catēchēsis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κατήχησις (katḗkhēsis), from κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0