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Jesuitic
see synonyms of jesuiticAdjective
1. jesuit, jesuitic, jesuitical
having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
Example Sentences:'Jesuitical education'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Jesuitic
see synonyms of jesuiticnoun
1.
a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (the Society of Jesus) founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534 with the aims of defending the papacy and Catholicism against the Reformation and to undertake missionary work among the heathen
2. (sometimes not capital) informal
a person given to subtle and equivocating arguments; casuist
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Jesuitic
see synonyms of jesuitic noun
1.
a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order for men, founded
by Ignatius Loyola in 1534
2. [j-]
a crafty schemer; cunning dissembler; casuist
, hostile and offensive term, as used by anti-JesuitsWebster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.