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Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison.

In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.

The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.

To instruct by asking questions, receiving answeres, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.

A form of instruction by means of questions answers.

Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechical.

One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.

Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give you in this weighty cause! Shak.

Without doubt or question; unquestionably.

A fact or truth unquestionable established. Certainties are uninteresting and sating. Landor.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there"

o have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.

he use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.…

te vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

l interest; collateral issues. That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay.

l to a class. -- To come up (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. -- To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. -- To come up the tac…

To take a degree at a university. [Eng.] I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age. Fuller.

is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. Hume.

he understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand. At a loss to comprehend the question. W. Irwing. Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend. Job. xxxvii. 5.