It may designate the act of instructing, the subject-matter or the doctrine imparted, a summary thereof, the text of the traditional chief parts, or a book containing the catechismal doctrine, text, or text with explanation.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
There are no Sabbath-breakers to be compared, in the vehemence of their Sabbath-breaking, to hard-worked parochial clergymen-unless, indeed, it be Sunday-school children, who are forced on that day to learn long dark collects, and stand in dread catechismal row before their spiritual pastors and masters.
"The Bertrams"
Anthony Trollope
Indeed, of this catechismal number the oldest was but fifteen years of age, and the youngest a nursing babe of six months.
"The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52"
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe