Carritch

Quick meaning: Carritch is a noun meaning (Scotland, chiefly in the plural) A catechism.

Meaning

(Scotland, chiefly in the plural) A catechism.

Example Sentences

Can I forget how lang and weel The carritches ye made me read ?

Christily is a most faithful young woman with a face as red and lush as a rasp, who knows her carritches both ways, and has such a reverence for ministers that she looks upon me more as an edifice than a mortal.

"Do sae, minister — do sae," cried Madge; "I am as weel worth looking at as ony book in your aught. — And I can say the single carritch, and the double carritch, and justification, and effectual calling, and the assembly of divines at Westminster, that is," (she added in a low tone) " I could say them anes -- but it's lang syne -- and ane forgets, ye ken."

Word Forms

• carritches

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include categise, catachism, catechism, curch, catechumenate, catechresis.

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