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Meanings of jesuitical in English

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jesuític

Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism.

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Examples for "jesuit"
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One might as well have a jesuit in the house at once.
Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
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Or was the jesuit house extraterritorial and was he walking among aliens?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Title: The Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
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The commission's biologist, the Jesuit Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez, encounters a theological problem.
What does a martian look like?
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He found shelter and friendship in many Jesuit houses on the way.
For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka
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She studied the friendly, Jesuitic wrinkles in his face, by virtue of which he managed to conceal his real thoughts.
The Goose Man
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For the moment he was the only possible leader, and they were sufficiently Jesuitic to use the Devil himself for good ends.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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The dogmatism of Protestant orthodoxy and the Jesuitic tendencies and ultramontanism of the Catholics, must be surmounted, before any common religious movement can be contemplated.
Germany and the Next War
Usage of jesuitical in English
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And she proves with jesuitical demonstration that you are a subtle Jesuit.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part
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Don't fight at all. It was a most philosophic and jesuitical motorman.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
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It is the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies the means.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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But the moment I hear it is jesuitical I forswear it.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
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Mr. Patrick, I cannot consent to despatch a jesuitical letter.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
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For the jesuitical morality of this line Euripides is bitterly attacked by the comic poet.)
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
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This jesuitical reply appeared to satisfy her.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
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There has been a shower of sermons and exhortations; Secker, the jesuitical Bishop of Oxford, began the mode.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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His jesuitical arguments interested me, for I knew that he was an avowed partisan of the forbidden fruit.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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The following words each appear once, and are left unchanged: "cathechism;" "effulgency;" "engraven;" "jesuitical;" "Macris;" "Oricular;" "perceptibilities."
"Thirty Years In Hell" Or, "From Darkness to Light"
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Mrs. Sutton's jesuitical resolve was to humor her by every imaginable device, even to feigned friendship for Frederic Chilton.
At Last: A Novel
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It is somewhat strange, therefore, that he should adopt, to the full extent, the jesuitical doctrine of the direction of intentions.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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The King does not like him much; but he is a good man on the whole, though jesuitical; he shall introduce you.
Devereux — Volume 04
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After long waiting and much entreaty his jesuitical highness at length made his appearance, and received me as the Grand Mogul would his slave.
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1
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Does it matter, if we call it jesuitical, if the emotion at work behind it happens to be a trifle so, according to your definition?'
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
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The most jesuitical Jesuit of Jesuits is yet a thousand times less jesuitical than the least jesuitical woman,-soyou may judge what Jesuits women are!
Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part
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