Jesuitize

English Alternative forms en jesuitize Jesuitise jesuitise Etymology From en Jesuit ize. Verb en transitive To convert to the form of catholicism practiced by the Jesuits; to make (more) Jesuit. en 1848 The Jesuit conspiracy Jacopo Leone; Victor Prosper Considérant 182 It will be equally clear that it is their project to Jesuitize, besides all the other orders, the papacy itself; and, as the nec plus ultra of the metamorphoses they are effecting by their mysterious strategy, to Jesuitize the whole world. en 1874 From the Stage Coach to the Pulpit Hiram K. Stimson; T. W. Greene 367 He belongs to the Jesuits. He has given names to streams and other natural objects in the region of the Mission, and has built some very substantial buildings for the uses of his church; but, although the Mission has been established forty-eight years, and every possible appliance has been used to civilize and educate and Jesuitize this tribe, yet, up to this time, not the first son or daughter of the Osages has been converted to Christianity, or even to Catholicism! en 2004 Robert Southwell and the Mission of Literature, 1561-1595 Scott R. Pilarz Opposition to this "shortness of scope" was especially common among older students training for the secular priesthood who resented what they perceived as efforts to "Jesuitize" them. en transitive and intransitive To argue like a Jesuit; to engage in sophistry (about). en 1861 Spiritualism versus pseudo-Swedenborgianism William Howitt 4 It is a curious circumstance that the opponents of Spiritualism so continually fly across the Atlantic for their charges against it. Here Mr. Foster Jesuitizes again. They are American myths that these Jesuit fathers particularly deal in. , Spiritualism is widely spread in England; its results are well known; all its facts are most easy of ascertainment; why, then, do not these genglemen draw their statistics from home? en 1957 Biblical Criticism 31 First, it implicates Christ in moral evil; it makes him out-Jesuitize the Jesuits in the trade of questionable distinctions. en 1976 Solzhenitsyn's Religion Niels C. Nielson 79 In philosophy, however, the liberal renegades decided to tell the whole truth, to reveal all their programme (war on materialism and the materialist interpretation of positivism, restoration of mysticism and the mystical world outlook), whereas on publicist subjects they prevaricate and hedge and Jesuitize.