Jesuitical
adjective
of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
Jesuitic
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a variation of
Jesuitical.
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a word derived from
Jesuit.
Jesuitnouna member of a Roman Catholic religious order Society of Jesus founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
Example Sentences
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Now they listened as Cuomo laboriously reviewed the Jesuitic logic that undergirded every statement he had ever made about running.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unquestionably Jesuitic was his mode of circumventing the young man's military scruples by offering him a puff of fair weather with which to sail toward what appeared to be the shore of delight.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
However here, too, a Jesuitic reaction set in.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
She studied the friendly, Jesuitic wrinkles in his face, by virtue of which he managed to conceal his real thoughts.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
In truth, it is always impossible to decide on the latent meaning of the Jesuitic pen.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
