attributive or participial adj.

Of or pertaining to the office, teaching, or method of instruction of a catechist, or of the catechism he expounds; consisting of question and…

Of, pertaining to, or connected with catechetics or catechesis; pertaining to instruction in the elementary principles of Christianity.

Of or pertaining to catechesis; according to the manner of a catechism. See catechetical, adj. 1 2.

= catechistical, adj.