jesuitic

comparative more jesuitic · superlative most jesuitic

1. Alternative letter-case form of Jesuitic.

comparative more Jesuitic · superlative most Jesuitic · alternative jesuitic

1. Of or relating to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.

   Synonyms: Jesuit, Jesuitical

2. datedderogatoryCrafty, cunning, deceitful.

   Their prosperity appeared to prove that honesty after all was not the best policy. What should I do then? How should I begin the jesuitical business of committing evil that good, personal good, might come of it?

   1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 11

3. datedderogatorySynonym of casuistic, intricately argued, particularly with quibbling detail or sophistic disingenuity.

   I ſhould be glad therefore, […] that they vvould joyn in a publick Act of diſovvning and deteſting thoſe Jeſuitick Principles; and ſubſcribe to all Doctrines vvhich deny the Popes Authority of Depoſing Kings, and releaſing Subjects from their Oath of Allegiance: […]

   [1682], [John] Dryden, “The Preface”, in Religio Laici or A Laymans Faith. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: casuistic, intricately argued, particularly with quibbling detail or sophistic disingenuity