catechize, v. 1. coach, tutor, instruct, train, teach, school, educate, initiate, nurture; edify, inspire; inform, show, familiarize, acquaint, enlighten; communicate, tell, impart, relate, preach, descant, discourse; inculcate, instill, indoctrinate, imbue, implant; ground, drill, discipline.
2. interrogate, cross-examine, examine, investigate, inquire, Inf. put through the third degree, interpellate, pump, drill; question, query, quiz, catechumen, n. novice, novitiate, initiate, tyro, neophyte, amateur, rookie, greenhorn, tenderfoot, newcomer, new boy; beginner, abecedarian, student, pupil, freshman, learner, fledgling, apprentice, trainee; recruit, convert, proselyte, probationer, categorical, adj. 1. unqualified, unconditional, un
conditioned, unrestricted, unreserved, unlimited, absolute, implicit, total; outright, downright, flat, out-and-out, straight-out, all-out, across-the-board; sheer, utter, unmitigated.
2. positive, determinate, certain, veritable, unequivocal, unambiguous, explicit, express; sure, confident, unquestionable, conclusive; official, confirmed, marked, emphatic, dogmatic, authoritative; demonstrable, demonstrated, apodictic, indubitable, undoubted; settled, fixed, definite, decided, decisive, pronounced; true, unmistakable, actual, factual, accurate, category, n. 1. class, classification, type, sort, kind, variety, family, genus, species, denomination; position, status, rank; designation, specification, heading; division, subdivision, department; province, sphere, Inf. bag, section.
2. arrangement, order, ordering, disposition, ordination, grouping; compilation, assortment, coordination, enumeration, cater, v. 1. provide, furnish, supply; purvey, mess, victual, forage; entertain, fete, wine and dine, regale.
2. cater to indulge, humor, favor, oblige; gratify, satisfy, please; give way to, yield to; pamper, coddle, spoil; serve, do for, do service for, work for; wait on or upon, attend, make comfortable, attend to the convenience of, minister to, pander to; curry favor, Inf. bootlick, fawn, toady to, Inf. butter up, Inf. sweet-talk, Inf. soft-soap, SI. suck up to. caterwaul, v. howl, screech, squall, shriek, wail, scream; squeal, yelp, bark, yap; miaow, mewl, whimper, whine, cry.
catharsis, n. purgation, purging, cleansing, cleaning out, ablution, abstersion; purification, purifying, depuration, epuration; lustration, Roman Hist. lustrum; expurgation, censoring, censorship, cathartic, adj. 1. purgative, purging, Med. lapac-tic, cleansing, cleaning, detergent, abstergent, abstersive; purifying, purificatory, depurative, ablutionary, lustrate, lustral; laxative, Med. aperient, carminative, emetic, vomitory; expurgatory, censorial.
-n. 2. purgative, laxative, Med. aperient, physic, cleanser, purifier, depurative; carminative, emetic, vomitory.
cathedral, n. principal church, episcopal see, bishop's seat; bishopric, episcopate, diocese; bishop's chair, bishop's throne, cathedra.
Catholic, n. Roman Catholic; ultramontane; All Disparaging, papist, Roman, Romanist, Mariolater, Brit. SI. left-footer.