Jesuitical education. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. '. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Thus, to all her mother's incitement she replied merely by such phrases as are wrongly called Jesuitical -- wrongly, because the. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Savarus] Reference
He invented the word "Jesuitical", in his Provincial Letters, and in those letters single-handedly created the myth of the crafty Jesuit. From Wordnik.com. [California Literary Review] Reference
(UNKNOWN): You can use Jesuitical if you'd rather. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2004] Reference
"How should I know?" was the somewhat Jesuitical reply. From Wordnik.com. [A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune] Reference
The line he took might be called the innocent Jesuitical. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
I just thrill tothe existence of such a Jesuitical nicety. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Mangan: All style and substance] Reference
Remember me to our Jesuitical friends, and believe me ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
Jesuitical Jesuit among the Jesuits is a thousand times less. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
As she says, sometimes she has to get Jesuitical in a good cause. From Wordnik.com. [Unnatural Death] Reference
Oxford a Jesuitical seminary, devoted to the secret propagation of. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
The effect of Jesuitical tact and judgment soon began to exhibit itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
In fact, the whole stand you are making is nothing more or less than Jesuitical. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 10] Reference
Here we met with an incident, which nothing but Jesuitical effrontery is equal to. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Also, the name choice is a bit Jesuitical, in that this blog is Catholic, not Confucian. From Wordnik.com. [A Name Change] Reference
Your reasoning is Jesuitical, Ramses; I see we will have to have a talk about it one day. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
Now, I am not a religious person, and this method strikes me as convoluted and Jesuitical. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Ground Zero] Reference
Jesuitical phraseology; and thousands were so converted in a few days by the followers of Ignatius. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
I desperately resisted making knowing references to the Vile Jesuitical Plots of the Romish Anti-Christ. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Machiavellism; in particular the Presbyterians were accused of “Jesuitical and Machiavellian policy.”. From Wordnik.com. [MACHIAVELLISM] Reference
Conversations with Little Supremes get Jesuitical; their word choice is precise, measured — in a word, judicious. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Supremes] Reference
After two weeks of non-stop ingestion of anti-Catholic rhetoric, you really must expect a little Jesuitical blowback. From Wordnik.com. [Little Jet-lagged Professor] Reference
Although he had cast me off through the foul play of Jesuitical intrigue, my love for my dear father remained the same. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Gen. Washington descended, and was used by him, probably without a thought of its Jesuitical association, or its meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
For you can only modify in the direction of my position, which is neither so Jesuitical nor so harsh as you have defined it. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 10] Reference
I thought perhaps the good abbot had a modicum of Jesuitical training somewhere in his past, or perhaps he came by it naturally. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
The tall Cointet took his hat and umbrella, his face at the same time taking its Jesuitical expression, and out he went, bidding. From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: You'll have to ask the scholars -- you know, the Jesuitical, Talmudic or whatever scholars on that. From Wordnik.com. [Background Briefing Aboard Air Force One] Reference
"Then, just after you branded me as Jesuitical, I turned the conversation to Lucile, saying that I wished to see what I could see.". From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 10] Reference
Jesuitical theory had its origin, perhaps, in the profound knowledge that Fate does not always use fair methods in gaining her ends. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
The Anglican C.S. Lewis had considered it in science fiction; the agnostic Blish had treated it with a literally Jesuitical subtlety. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
To reconcile averted friends a Jesuitical discretion is often needful, not so much to gain a kind hearing as to communicate sober truth. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Jesuitical — wrongly, because the Jesuits were strong, and such reservations are the chevaux de frise behind which weakness takes refuge. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Savarus] Reference
Tony: This hairsplitting is no more Jesuitical than it is rabbinic or talmudic, or perhaps Pharisaical? or, for that mater ... sharianical?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » May Jewish Community Center Discriminate Based on Religion?] Reference
But he would be wise and prudent; he would not be sentimental or priggish or Jesuitical. From Wordnik.com. [Watersprings] Reference
Look at Oxford, -- a Jesuitical seminary, devoted to the secret propagation of Romish falsehood. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
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