ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not formally instructed or examined in religion. Also absol.
1619. W. Sclater, Exp. 1 Thess. (1630), 28. The manner of ascending to assurance of Election,… wherein these men are yet uncatechized.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, iii. § 6. 218. But would God the uncatechiz’d were the only persons we had to complain of in this matter.
1680. C. Blount, trans. Philostratus, 233. If they perceive all hope of that to be taken from them, and no hopes in obedience, then what courses that despair will drive men into, may easily be foreseen by any who observe the proceedings of uncatechized Nature, which teaches more what men formerly have done, what they do, and what hereafter they will do, than what by the Rules of Duty they should do.
1685. J. Scott, Chr. Life, II. 137. The hair-brain’d and uncatechised youths of the Town.
1832. Macgillivray, Trav. Humboldt, xvii. 237. They found six houses inhabited by uncatechised Guahiboes.
1842. Pusey, in Liddon, Life (1893), I. xi. 258. It will be thrust on minds unprepared, and on an uncatechised Church.
Hence Uncatechizedness.
1659. Gauden, Tears Ch., iv. xxiii. 619. What means the Uncatechisedness, the Sottishness, Profaneness, Impudence and Irreligion which are so much spreading and prevailing?
