Jesuitical

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Jesuitical
    adj 1: having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism;
           "Jesuitical education" [syn: {Jesuitical}, {Jesuitic},
           {Jesuit}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jesuitic \Jes`u*it"ic\, Jesuitical \Jes`u*it"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F.
   j['e]suitique.]
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   1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles
      and methods.
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   2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious
      use of the word. --Dryden.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "jesuitical":
      apparently sound, casuistic, colorable, deceptive, dishonest,
      disingenuous, empty, fallacious, hollow, illusive, insincere,
      jesuitic, mealymouthed, overrefined, oversubtle, philosophistic,
      plausible, sophistic, sophistical, specious, tongue in cheek,
      uncandid, unfrank, unserious
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