Jesuitise

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Jesuitise (third-person singular simple present Jesuitises, present participle Jesuitising, simple past and past participle Jesuitised)

  1. Alternative form of Jesuitize
    • 1853, John Kitto, The Journal of sacred literature, page 29:
      Consequently France, which has refused the less, cannot well receive the greater. If it has been found so difficult to Catholicise France, how impossible to Jesuitise it.
    • 1878, Samuel Clark, Elizabeth J. H. Clark, Memorials from journals and letters of Samuel Clark:
      When I hear him so criticise, so philosophise, and so Jesuitise in cataloguing deadly and venial sins, I cannot but marvel greatly at his being so firmly and transparently right upon other points.
    • 1879, Thomas Robert Macquoid, Katharine Sarah Macquoid, Pictures & Legends from Normandy & Brittany, page 260:
      We see that in the conferences at Caen she neither treated Guadet with distinction nor had any particular liking for him, although the bent of his mind and his humour should have pleased her; but the fact is, Guadet has some pride in his soul, did not know how to flatter, toady and Jesuitise in her company as Barbaroux did."