Catechumen

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(L. catechunenus, Gr. / instructed, from /. See) One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [2]

See Baptism.

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