catechetics

Learned borrowing from Latin catēchēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κατηχητικός (katēkhētikós), from κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “catechize”).

catechetics (uncountable)

1. Religious teaching, especially that given to children before confirmation.
2. (education, archaic) The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.

• catechism

• “catechetics”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.