单词 | jesuitically |
释义 | Jesuiticallyadv. In a Jesuitical manner; with equivocation or mental reservation; with cunningly dissembled policy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [adverb] sophisticallya1382 fallaciously1612 Jesuitically1624 casuistly1650 casuistically1678 verbalistically1934 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 570 Your protestation..must be vnderstood Iesuitically, with mentall limitation. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xxxiii. 177 If you have ever so many ugly [qualities], they will be either palliated, or jesuitically interpreted into good ones. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 453 To reason more Jesuitically than the Jesuits themselves. 1946 Protestant (Boston, Mass.) Oct.–Nov. 48 Yet so jesuitically has the argument of ‘discrimination’ been presented that it has taken in even some well-intentioned progressive citizens. 1962 Punch 7 Feb. 253/3 ‘It's an ancient highway, a bit of old England,’ he pleads jesuitically, caring nothing for the means so that his end be achieved. 1974 I. Murdoch Sacred & Profane Love Machine 240 Monty in black linen jacket and white shirt, his dark hair well combed and neat, his black shoes ludicrously well polished, was looking his most jesuitically untouchable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1624 |
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