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单词 Jesuitical
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Definition of Jesuitical in English:

Jesuitical

adjective dʒɛzjʊˈɪtɪk(ə)lˌdʒɛzəˈwɪdəkəl
  • 1Of or concerning the Jesuits.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I think that his view of his role as that person was almost as a Jesuitical moderator in a sinful society.
    • A slightly less daunting local monument is the Jesuitical college, built at much the same time and now occupied by the university's economics faculty.
    • It sounds logical; one might even say Jesuitical.
    • There is something Jesuitical about the relationship of these historians to Marxism.
    • I think that his view of his role was almost as a Jesuitical moderator in a sinful society.
    • The editor of the Catholic Herald was somewhat Jesuitical when I argued with him in a BBC studio yesterday.
    • Blackrock's authorities clearly see their teaching methods in the Jesuitical tradition of ‘Give me the boy and I'll give you the man.’
    1. 1.1 Dissembling or equivocating, in the manner once associated with Jesuits.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You have offered me a typically Jesuitical explanation, but still no apology.
      • Is this one of those Jesuitical compromises, where we are putting the end before the means?
      • The Jesuitical point here is that Blair chooses not to regard as ‘leaking’ the method he used to throw Kelly to the wolves.
      • For all his mild and gentlemanlike manner he was also tough and uncompromising, a Jesuitical loner in a companionable game.
      • Distinctions drawn in the farmers' market business are Jesuitical, the meaning of ‘farmers' market’ itself the most interesting topic going.
      • In the less melodramatic case of airport security lines, the government's solution involves the splendidly Jesuitical distinction between ‘lines’ and ‘lanes.’
      • The level of full disclosure that's required is Jesuitical.
      • We marvelled at this truly Jesuitical response, and listened intensely.
      • Encouraged by a little Jesuitical reasoning to the effect that death has released him from his promise, he may yet plumb the depths of Coombs the man.

Derivatives

  • Jesuitically

  • adverb
    • Londoners have got geographical distinction down to a Jesuitically fine art.
 
 

Definition of Jesuitical in US English:

Jesuitical

adjectiveˌdʒɛzəˈwɪdəkəlˌjezəˈwidəkəl
  • 1Of or concerning the Jesuits.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I think that his view of his role as that person was almost as a Jesuitical moderator in a sinful society.
    • There is something Jesuitical about the relationship of these historians to Marxism.
    • A slightly less daunting local monument is the Jesuitical college, built at much the same time and now occupied by the university's economics faculty.
    • Blackrock's authorities clearly see their teaching methods in the Jesuitical tradition of ‘Give me the boy and I'll give you the man.’
    • It sounds logical; one might even say Jesuitical.
    • I think that his view of his role was almost as a Jesuitical moderator in a sinful society.
    • The editor of the Catholic Herald was somewhat Jesuitical when I argued with him in a BBC studio yesterday.
    1. 1.1 Dissembling or equivocating, in the manner associated with Jesuits.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For all his mild and gentlemanlike manner he was also tough and uncompromising, a Jesuitical loner in a companionable game.
      • You have offered me a typically Jesuitical explanation, but still no apology.
      • Encouraged by a little Jesuitical reasoning to the effect that death has released him from his promise, he may yet plumb the depths of Coombs the man.
      • In the less melodramatic case of airport security lines, the government's solution involves the splendidly Jesuitical distinction between ‘lines’ and ‘lanes.’
      • We marvelled at this truly Jesuitical response, and listened intensely.
      • Is this one of those Jesuitical compromises, where we are putting the end before the means?
      • Distinctions drawn in the farmers' market business are Jesuitical, the meaning of ‘farmers' market’ itself the most interesting topic going.
      • The level of full disclosure that's required is Jesuitical.
      • The Jesuitical point here is that Blair chooses not to regard as ‘leaking’ the method he used to throw Kelly to the wolves.
 
 
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