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Jesuitical, a.|dʒɛzjuːˈɪtɪkəl|
[See -ical.]
1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 230 The most dangerous infections, and..irremedilesse poyson of the Iesuiticall doctrine. 1647Mass. Col. Rec. (1854) III. 112 The secrit practises of those of the Jesuiticall order. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. x. 413 The behaviour of the Magistrates..at Canton, sufficiently refutes these jesuitical fictions. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. iv. §14 Productions so little regarded as those of the jesuitical casuists. 1848Jesuitism in Church iv. 41 Jesuitical principles are by no means confined to those who openly adhere to the rule of Loyola. c1905H. A. Henderson Shall we tolerate Jesuits? vii. 24 An influx of Jesuitical religious Orders. 1932G. F.-H. Berkeley Italy in Making I. xvi. 238 The head of a Jesuitical society, the Amicizia cattolica. 1943H. J. Muller Sci. & Crit. 195 It has therefore incorporated the Jesuitical principle that the end justifies the means. 1947C. J. Cadoux Philip of Spain & Netherlands vii. 147 The need of money for..launching his Jesuitical seminaries..caused the pope great financial difficulty.
2. Having the character ascribed to the Jesuits; deceitful, dissembling; practising equivocation, prevarication, or mental reservation of truth. Often used in sense ‘hair-splitting’, keenly analytical.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 530 Easie it may be indeed to seared Iesuiticall Consciences, that account Treason Religion. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 13 July, All which Mr. Lismahago answered with a sort of jesuitical reserve. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxiii. 288 The low cunning and Jesuitical trick with which she deludes her husband. 1829Jesuitism & Methodism I. viii. 119 She trusted..to preserve Cordelia from being perverted, by Jesuitical craft, from the true light. 1871Smiles Charac. vii. (1876) 207 Their jesuitical cleverness in equivocation. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) II. iii. xxvi. 327 ‘Hesitating fatally but not criminally at the one time in his life when he should not have hesitated’—a really strong if jesuitical plea which was not without its merits and its weight. 1932E. Bevan Christianity ix. 192 Two things especially brought odium upon the name of Jesuit. One is the suspicion of vast subterranean intrigue carried on to gain worldly power..; and the other is the belief that the Jesuits cultivate an immoral casuistry—whence the adjective ‘jesuitical’—and especially teach that a good end justifies any kind of means. 1950Nation (N.Y.) 16 Dec. 595 If they insist on debating jesuitical verbal formulas instead of effective and enforceable agreements..then no worth-while end would be served by attempting to bargain with them. 1971M. Hastings Jesuit Child i. i. 14 People only call a man jesuitical when they are beaten in an argument. 1972New Yorker 29 Apr. 112/2 The film [‘Loot’] is made up of people who regard themselves as lone wolves with a unique hold on sense who have to put up with the Jesuitical twitterings of everybody else. 1974Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 12 An argument of such Jesuitical subtlety that one would have thought it could impress no one of moderate common sense or sanity. |