Sentence example with the word 'jesuitical'

jesuitical

apparently sound, colorable, dishonest, empty, hollow, insincere, mealymouthed, oversubtle, plausible, sophistical, tongue in cheek, unfrank

Definition adj. having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism

Last update: July 24, 2015


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Besides the works already noticed, he wrote De arte critica (1597); De Antichristo (1605); Pro auctoritate ecclesiae in decidendis fidei controversiis libellus; Scaliger hypololymaeus (1607), a virulent attack on Scaliger; and latterly the anti-jesuitical works, Flagellum Jesuiticum (1632); Mysteria patrum jesuitorum (1633); and Arcana societatis Jesu (1635).   [Please select]

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, his Jesuitical principles, his cruelties in Ireland, his dispersion of parliaments, and his usurpation of supreme power.   [Please select]

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Evidently the government holds to the Jesuitical conception, "Give me the child mind, and I will mould the man."   [Please select]

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Expediency--the accepted Jesuitical principle of the end justifying the means--is seen in almost everything in this world which blazes with success.   [Please select]

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A Jesuitical way that, Major Duncan Heyward, of telling a man of his misfortunes.   [Please select]

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No Smithfield fire, then, no Jesuitical rack, no cup of hemlock, no thumb-screw, no torture of any kind for David.   [Please select]

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