jesuitize

present singular third person jesuitizes · participle present jesuitizing · participle past jesuitized · past jesuitized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Jesuitize.

   Or will St. Ignatius Loyola inquisitionize and jesuitize them all?

   1856, John Adams, Charles Francis Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, page 170

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   The object of the Romish Church was to teach falsehoods instead of truths; to suppress the facts of anatomy and geology; to explain away, to expound, to twist and contort; to jesuitize all human knowledge.

   1862, Robert Knox, The Races of Men

   How these worthies will act, we cannot foresee. Each will jesuitize for himself I suppose, and these will a beautiful medley.

   1912, Orlo Williams, Lamb's Friend the Census-taker: Life and Letters of John Rickman

present singular third person Jesuitizes · participle present Jesuitizing · participle past Jesuitized · past Jesuitized · alternative jesuitize · alternative Jesuitise · alternative jesuitise

1. transitiveTo convert to the form of catholicism practiced by the Jesuits; to make (more) Jesuit.

   Opposition to this "shortness of scope" was especially common among older students training for the secular priesthood who resented what they perceived as efforts to "Jesuitize" them.

   2004, Scott R. Pilarz, Robert Southwell and the Mission of Literature, 1561-1595

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   It will be equally clear that it is their project to Jesuitize, besides all the other orders, the papacy itself; and, as the nec plus ultra of the metamorphoses they are effecting by their mysterious strategy, to Jesuitize the whole world.

   1848, Jacopo Leone, Victor Prosper Considérant, The Jesuit conspiracy, page 182

   He belongs to the Jesuits. He has given names to streams and other natural objects in the region of the Mission, and has built some very substantial buildings for the uses of his church; but, although the Mission has been established forty-eight years, and every possible appliance has been used to civilize and educate and Jesuitize this tribe, yet, up to this time, not the first son or daughter of the Osages has been converted to Christianity, or even to Catholicism!

   1874, Hiram K. Stimson, T. W. Greene, From the Stage Coach to the Pulpit, page 367

2. intransitivetransitiveTo argue like a Jesuit; to engage in sophistry (about).

   First, it implicates Christ in moral evil; it makes him out-Jesuitize the Jesuits in the trade of questionable distinctions.

   1957, Biblical Criticism, page 31

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   It is a curious circumstance that the opponents of Spiritualism so continually fly across the Atlantic for their charges against it. Here Mr. Foster Jesuitizes again. They are American myths that these Jesuit fathers particularly deal in. , Spiritualism is widely spread in England; its results are well known; all its facts are most easy of ascertainment; why, then, do not these genglemen draw their statistics from home?

   1861, William Howitt, Spiritualism versus pseudo-Swedenborgianism, page 4

   In philosophy, however, the liberal renegades decided to tell the whole truth, to reveal all their programme (war on materialism and the materialist interpretation of positivism, restoration of mysticism and the mystical world outlook), whereas on publicist subjects they prevaricate and hedge and Jesuitize.

   1976, Niels C. Nielson, Solzhenitsyn's Religion, page 79