jesuitise
Collocations
3ADJ.
deadly, impossible
VERB + JESUITISE
philosophise
PREP.
in
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verb
Alternative form of Jesuitize.
Consequently France, which has refused the less, cannot well receive the greater. If it has been found so difficult to Catholicise France, how impossible to Jesuitise it.
When I hear him so criticise, so philosophise, and so Jesuitise in cataloguing deadly and venial sins, I cannot but marvel greatly at his being so firmly and transparently right upon other points.
verb
Alternative form of Jesuitize.
To preach liberalism to a population jesuitised by education, is to press the pleasures of dancing upon a man who has lost a leg.
They are exercising in London a most pernicious jesuitised influence.
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5Consequently France, which has refused the less, cannot well receive the greater. If it has been found so difficult to Catholicise France, how impossible to Jesuitise it.
WiktionaryWhen I hear him so criticise, so philosophise, and so Jesuitise in cataloguing deadly and venial sins, I cannot but marvel greatly at his being so firmly and transparently right upon other points.
WiktionaryWe see that in the conferences at Caen she neither treated Guadet with distinction nor had any particular liking for him, although the bent of his mind and his humour should have pleased her; but the
WiktionaryTo preach liberalism to a population jesuitised by education, is to press the pleasures of dancing upon a man who has lost a leg.
WiktionaryThey are exercising in London a most pernicious jesuitised influence.
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