Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Jesuits or their principles.
- [lowercase] Same as
jesuitical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.
- adjective Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
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Examples
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Last and greatest, see, for one moment, the Abbe Maury; with his jesuitic eyes, his impassive brass face, 'image of all the cardinal sins.'
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Who are they that, carping and quarrelling, in their jesuitic most moderate way, seek to shackle the Patriotic movement?
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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With such sanctified meekness does the Incorruptible lift his seagreen cheek to the smiter; lift his thin voice, and with jesuitic dexterity plead, and prosper: asking at last, in a prosperous manner: "But what witnesses has the Citoyen Barbaroux to support his testimony?"
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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How his answers and explanations flow ready; jesuitic, plausible to the ear!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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He assumed his grand jesuitic airs, and, although with honeyed word he would take the liberty of censuring me because I sometimes spent a night out, and, as he would say, “God knows where!”
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He assumed his grand jesuitic airs, and, although with honeyed word he would take the liberty of censuring me because I sometimes spent a night out, and, as he would say, "God knows where!"
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 06: Paris Giacomo Casanova 1761
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He assumed his grand jesuitic airs, and, although with honeyed word he would take the liberty of censuring me because I sometimes spent a night out, and, as he would say, "God knows where!"
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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What is the church? is a question upon which all the subtilty of jesuitic schoolmen and casuists has been exhausted, to mystify and mislead the honest inquirer in every age.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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