catechetical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cat=e=chet=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

catechetical, a. [Gr. . See Catechise.].

 Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.  [1913 Webster]
"Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

catechetical, adj. (also catechetic)
1 of or by oral teaching.
2 according to the catechism of a Church.
3 consisting of or proceeding by question and answer.

Derivative

catechetically adv. catechetics n.

Etymology

eccl.Gk katekhetikos f. katekhetes oral teacher: see CATECHIZE

ROGET THESAURUS

catechetical

Inquiry

N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.