单词 | jesuitical |
释义 | Jesuiticaladj. 1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Society of Jesus > [adjective] Jesuited1601 Jesuitical1602 Jesuitish1602 Ignatian1605 Jebusitical1613 Jebusitish16.. Jesuital1671 Jebusitic1681 Jesuitic1804 Xaverian1915 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 230 The most dangerous infections, and..irremedilesse poyson of the Iesuiticall doctrine. 1647 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1854) III. 112 The secrit practises of those of the Jesuiticall order. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 413 The behaviour of the Magistrates..at Canton, sufficiently refutes these jesuitical fictions. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 323 Productions so little regarded as those of the Jesuitical casuists. 1848 Jesuitism in Church iv. 41 Jesuitical principles are by no means confined to those who openly adhere to the rule of Loyola. c1905 H. A. Henderson Shall we tolerate Jesuits? vii. 24 An influx of Jesuitical religious Orders. 1932 G. F.-H. Berkeley & J. Berkeley Italy in Making I. xvi. 238 The head of a Jesuitical society, the Amicizia cattolica. 1943 H. J. Muller Sci. & Crit. 195 It has therefore incorporated the Jesuitical principle that the end justifies the means. 1947 C. 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. ΘΚΠ 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 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 530 Easie it may be indeed to seared Iesuiticall Consciences, that account Treason Religion. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 166 All which Mr. Lismahago answered with a sort of jesuitical reserve. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxiii. 288 The low cunning and Jesuitical trick with which she deludes her husband. 1829 Jesuitism & Methodism I. viii. 119 She trusted..to preserve Cordelia from being perverted, by Jesuitical craft, from the true light. 1871 S. Smiles Character vii. 207 Their jesuitical cleverness in equivocation. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. 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. 1932 E. 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. 1950 Nation (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. 1971 M. Hastings Jesuit Child i. i. 14 People only call a man jesuitical when they are beaten in an argument. 1972 New 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. 1974 Daily 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1602 |
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