catechist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism)

See catechize.

“What do you do then?” “Fair catechist, I enjoy myself. — Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins", Louisa May Alcott
He was quite blind, and told me he was a catechist, which should have put me at my ease. — Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
Helen, very new to a world of de Courcy Vavasours, and Wraggs, and Burnham-Joneses, forgave this hawklike pertinacity for sake of the apparent sympathy of her catechist. — The Silent Barrier, Louis Tracy

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