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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

However here, too, a Jesuitic reaction set in.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

Of the monuments with which Richelieu would have ornamented his town there remains a curious market-hall and a church in the pure Jesuitic style of architecture, lacking nothing of pretence and grandeur.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

The police, under Jesuitic influence, at length seized on the plates in the cabinet of the fair artist.—Caustic was the retort courteous which Arnauld gave the Jesuits—"I do not fear your pen, but its knife."

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

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 Thompson, Maurice