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Adjective
Jesuitical (comparative more Jesuitical, superlative most Jesuitical)
- Synonym of Jesuitic.
1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, page 72:There certainly was a kind of Jesuitical cast to him; she could imagine him sombre in a black cassock.