home teach

Verb

home teach (third-person singular simple present home teaches, present participle home teaching, simple past and past participle home taught)

1. (Mormonism, ambitransitive) To teach as part of a home teaching assignment.
   • I cannot say that I love to home teach until I get to the first home, and then I do love it because I then get the spirit of a home teacher because I am acting like a home teacher—doing what a home teacher does.1974 January, Hartman Rector Jr., “You Shall Receive the Spirit”, in Ensign, volume 3, number 4, page 105
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see home, teach.
   • One of the things I did for him was I bought him a laptop, and I structured his day and home taught him.2001 June 10, Margo Nash, quoting Linda Nettleton, “In a Children's Ward, Visiting Hours Are for a Museum”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...