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Jesuˈitically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a Jesuitical manner; with equivocation or mental reservation; with cunningly dissembled policy.
1624F. White Repl. Fisher 570 Your protestation..must be vnderstood Iesuitically, with mentall limitation. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xxxiii. 177 If you have ever so many ugly [qualities], they will be either palliated, or jesuitically interpreted into good ones. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 453 To reason more Jesuitically than the Jesuits themselves. 1946Protestant (Boston, Mass.) Oct.–Nov. 48 Yet so jesuitically has the argument of ‘discrimination’ been presented that it has taken in even some well-intentioned progressive citizens. 1962Punch 7 Feb. 253/3 ‘It's an ancient highway, a bit of old England,’ he pleads jesuitically, caring nothing for the means so that his end be achieved. 1974I. Murdoch Sacred & Profane Love Machine 240 Monty in black linen jacket and white shirt, his dark hair well combed and neat, his black shoes ludicrously well polished, was looking his most jesuitically untouchable. |