a. [f. prec. + -AL: there may have been a med.L. catēchismālis.] Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a catechism.
1819. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 64. I believe that the so-called Apostles’ Creed was … the catechismal rather than the baptismal creed.
1860. Dora Greenwell, Ess., 215. [She] puts her little niece through her catechismal paces.
