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Jesuitical

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Adjective

1. jesuit, jesuitic, jesuitical

having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism

Example Sentences:
'Jesuitical education'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jesuitical

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noun
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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Jesuitical

see synonyms of jesuitical
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-Jesuits

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Jesuitical

see synonyms of jesuitical
n.
1. Roman Catholic Church A member of the Society of Jesus.
2. often jesuit One given to subtle casuistry.

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