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If to prevent sects and schisms, who is so unread or so uncatechised in story, that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixed for many ages, only by unwritten traditions.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909
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And, as we have elsewhere said, we are convinced that, just in proportion as the youth are uncatechised and uninstructed in the great doctrines of God's Word regarding sin and Grace, in that proportion will doubt, skepticism, unbelief and infidelity infect them, and lead them into the paths of the destroyer.
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A man whose shirt-pin was a gold nugget of his own digging, yet a man so modest as to play euchre with Basile, and who stood thus far utterly uncatechised save by John the Baptist.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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Two others had been contracted by uncatechised natives, and celebrated before the Indian Gobernador.
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We there found six houses inhabited by uncatechised Guahibos.
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We there found six houses inhabited by uncatechised Guahibos.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Two others had been contracted by uncatechised natives, and celebrated before the Indian Gobernador.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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