Jesuiticadj.
/ˌdʒɛzjʊˈɪtɪk/, /ˌdʒɛʒʊˈɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛzʊˈɪdɪk/, /ˌdʒɛʒʊˈɪdɪk/ Now rare.
1. = Jesuitical adj. 1.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Society of Jesus > [adjective]
Jesuited1601
Jesuitical1602
Jesuitish1602
Ignatian1605
Jebusitical1613
Jebusitish16..
Jesuital1671
Jebusitic1681
Jesuitic1804
Xaverian1915
1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 254 The other secret directors of the jesuitic interest.
1888 Biblioth. Sacra Jan. 194 The Jesuitic maxim, that ‘he who has the schools has the future’.
2. = Jesuitical adj. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [adjective]
fallacious?1473
sophistical1483
Jesuitish1602
sophistic1605
Jesuitical1613
Jesuitic1640
casuistical1648
specious1651
casuistic1660
casual1672
fine-drawn1681
scholastic1700
scholasticated1772
verbalistic1879
1640 R. Baillie Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Postscr. 2 In these Iesuiticke arts ye prove so excelent.
a1797 H. Walpole Walpoliana (1799) I. 24 Pope was, perhaps, too refined and jesuitic a professor of authorship.
1858 T. Carlyle On Heroes (rev. ed.) vi. 378 A hypocrite shrouding himself in confused Jesuitic [1841 Jesuistic] jargon!
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