Contextualizebeta

home teaching

noun

Etymology

From home teach + -ing.

  1. derived from *taikijaną✻ — “to show, point out”
  2. inherited from *taikijandz✻
  3. inherited from tǣċende
  4. inherited from techinge
  5. compounded as home teaching — “home + teaching”

Definitions

  1. The responsibility of the priesthood in which a pair of priesthood holders visit another…

    The responsibility of the priesthood in which a pair of priesthood holders visit another member's family to teach them LDS doctrine and monitor their well-being.

    • When it came time for me to be ordained a teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood, I told the bishop I would accept a home teaching assignment.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see home, teaching.

    • John C. Holt, publisher of the newsletter Growing Without Schooling, believes that excluding families with disabled youngsters, about 10,000 to 20,000 families throughout the country have elected home teaching.

  3. present participle and gerund of home teach

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for home teaching. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA