Sc. [Carritches is a corruption of CATECHIZE sb. F. catéchèse, which has been treated as a plural, with sing. carritch.] = CATECHISM.
a. 1761. [S. Haliburton & Hepburn], Mem. Magopico, i. (ed. 2), 5–6 (Jam.). A blind woman … taught him the A, B, C, and the Mother’s Carritch.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Poems (1789), II. 112 (Jam.).
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xvi. I can say the single carritch, and the double carritch, and justification, and effectual calling.
Mod. Sc. He knows the carritches thoroughly.
b. To give carritch: to take to task.
1776. Herd, Sc. Songs, II. 219 (Jam.). The very first night the strife began, And she gae me my carriage.
Hence Carritch v. trans., to catechize.
1837. R. Nicoll, Poems (1842), 83. The Minister … duly carritchin’ the bairns.
