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[syn: Jesuitical, Jesuitic, Jesuit]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Jesuitic \Jes`u*it"ic\, Jesuitical \Jes`u*it"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F.
j['e]suitique.]
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1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles
and methods.
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2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious
use of the word. --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Jesuitical
adj 1: having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism;
"Jesuitical education" [syn: Jesuitical, Jesuitic,
Jesuit]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "jesuitical":
apparently sound, casuistic, colorable, deceptive, dishonest,
disingenuous, empty, fallacious, hollow, illusive, insincere,
jesuitic, mealymouthed, overrefined, oversubtle, philosophistic,
plausible, sophistic, sophistical, specious, tongue in cheek,
uncandid, unfrank, unserious