a. and sb. Also 7–8 -tick. [ad. L. catēchētic-us, a. Gr. κατηχητικ-ός, f. κατηχητ-ής oral instructor: deriv. as prec.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to catechesis; according to the manner of a catechism. See CATECHETICAL 1 and 2.
1661. Fell, Dr. Hammond, 33 (R.). Sound, and yet not trivial, Catechetick institution.
a. 1672. Wood, Life (1848), 243, note. Of such sort a Catechetic Lecture must be.
1702. Addison, Evid. Chr. Relig. (1727), 302. In the year 202 the great Origen was appointed Regent of the Catechetick School in Alexandria.
1718. Hickes & Nelson, J. Kettlewell, II. i. 65. Catechetick Lectures upon the Creed.
1858. H. Bushnell, Serm. New Life, 181. Catechetic orthodoxy.
B. sb. mostly pl. catechetics. That part of Christian theology which treats of catechesis.
1849. J. Brown, J. Fisher, ii. 16. He answered his catechetics and chronological questions on the last half of the 10th century.
1882. W. Blaikie, Minist. of Word, 296. Ample treatises on Homiletics, Liturgies, Catechetics and Poimenics.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., 417. Catechetics … corresponds to catechesis, as theory to practice.
b. Catechetic writings or treatises. (Gr. κατηχητικά.)
1849. W. Fitzgerald, trans. Whitaker’s Disput., 596. Cyril of Jerusalem … in his Catechetics.
