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To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.

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  1. v. t. To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.
  2. v. t. To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct.
  3. v. give religious instructions to
  4. v. examine through questioning and answering
  5. 1. To instruct by asking questions, receiving answeres, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith. 2. To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct. Swift.
  6. v give religious instructions to v examine through questioning and answering