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One must know how to speak jesuitically; and, in order to advance, one must be clever in getting one's ideas to walk on crutches.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick

“If in his great power and infinite knowledge he thinks it is necessary,” replied the missionary, a little jesuitically.

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux

Hereupon G. Fox asked, 'whether they did believe that those his friends, whom they had put to death, were Jesuits, or jesuitically affected?'

From The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Adams, Brooks