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What is the adjective for Jesuits?

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Jesuitic
  1. Of or relating to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.
  2. (derogatory) cunning; deceitful; crafty
  3. Examples:
    1. “The police, under jesuitic influence, at length seized on the plates in the cabinet of the fair artist.”
      “In truth, it is always impossible to decide on the latent meaning of the jesuitic pen.”
      “Who are they that, carping and quarrelling, in their jesuitic most moderate way, seek to shackle the Patriotic movement?”
Jesuited
  1. Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits.
Jesuit
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of this society or its members
Jesuitical
  1. Alternative form of Jesuitic
  2. Examples:
    1. “You have offered me a typically Jesuitical explanation, but still no apology.”
      “Is this one of those Jesuitical compromises, where we are putting the end before the means?”
      “There is something Jesuitical about the relationship of these historians to Marxism.”
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