a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.] Of or pertaining to catechumens.
1790. J. Courtenay, Philos. Reflect., 19. Have not these catechumenical lectures been translated into all languages?
1836. G. S. Faber, Prim. Doct. Elect. (1842), 155. The whole of his catechumenical and post-catechumenical instruction.
Hence Catechumenically adv.
1840. G. S. Faber, Prim. Doct. Regen., 198. The Living Word of Truth delivered to him catechumenically.
