jesuitize

English

Verb

jesuitize (third-person singular simple present jesuitizes, present participle jesuitizing, simple past and past participle jesuitized)

1. Alternative form of Jesuitize
   • 1856, John Adams, Charles Francis Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, page 170:

     Or will St. Ignatius Loyola inquisitionize and jesuitize them all?

   • 1862, Robert Knox, The Races of Men:

     The object of the Romish Church was to teach falsehoods instead of truths; to suppress the facts of anatomy and geology; to explain away, to expound, to twist and contort; to jesuitize all human knowledge.

   • 1912, Orlo Williams, Lamb's Friend the Census-taker: Life and Letters of John Rickman:

     How these worthies will act, we cannot foresee. Each will jesuitize for himself I suppose, and these will a beautiful medley.