catechesis
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catechesis
"instruction by word of mouth," from Gk. katekhesis, from katekhein "to instruct orally," originally "to resound," from kata- "down" (in this case, "thoroughly") + ekhein "to sound, ring."
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Catechesis
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Typically, it is a lay minister trained in the art of catechesis.
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