Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Designing; crafty; politic; insinuating: an opprobrious term.

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  • adjective Alternative form of Jesuitic.

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  • adjective having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism

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Examples

  • It was designing of him, what Brother Polycarp would have called Jesuitical, and it troubled him, the deceit.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • It was designing of him, what Brother Polycarp would have called Jesuitical, and it troubled him, the deceit.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • 'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. '

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • On what is called the Jesuitical doctrine of Pious Frauds, it was voted that they are wrong, although on the similar question whether it is ever allowable to tell lies the members agreed with military men, statesmen and others that occasion may arise to justify them.

    History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

  • Thus, to all her mother's incitement she replied merely by such phrases as are wrongly called Jesuitical -- wrongly, because the

    Albert Savarus Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • He invented the word "Jesuitical", in his Provincial Letters, and in those letters single-handedly created the myth of the crafty Jesuit.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • He invented the word "Jesuitical", in his Provincial Letters, and in those letters single-handedly created the myth of the crafty Jesuit.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • He invented the word "Jesuitical", in his Provincial Letters, and in those letters single-handedly created the myth of the crafty Jesuit.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • "Then, just after you branded me as Jesuitical, I turned the conversation to Lucile, saying that I wished to see what I could see."

    CHAPTER 10 2010

  • Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it.

    THEFT 2010

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