jesuitise
jesuitise is the alternative form of Jesuitize.
Meaning of Jesuitize
Verb
Jesuitize (third-person singular simple present Jesuitizes, present participle Jesuitizing, simple past and past participle Jesuitized)
- To convert to the form of catholicism practiced by the Jesuits; to make (more) Jesuit.
- 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.1848, Jacopo Leone, Victor Prosper Considérant, The Jesuit conspiracy, page 182
- To argue like a Jesuit; to engage in sophistry (about).
- 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...1861, William Howitt, Spiritualism versus pseudo-Swedenborgianism, page 4
Verb capitalized: Jesuitise
Jesuitise (third-person singular simple present Jesuitises, present participle Jesuitising, simple past and past participle Jesuitised)
- 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.1853, John Kitto, The Journal of sacred literature, page 29
- 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.1878, Samuel Clark, Elizabeth J. H. Clark, Memorials from journals and letters of Samuel Clark
Forms of jesuitise
| third-person singular present | jesuitises |
|---|---|
| present participle | jesuitising |
| past participle | jesuitised |
| past | jesuitised |
| third-person singular present | Jesuitises |
| present participle | Jesuitising |
| past participle | Jesuitised |
| past | Jesuitised |
Questions about jesuitise
- What is jesuitise the alternative form of?
- Jesuitise is the alternative form of Jesuitize.
- What part of speech is jesuitise?
- Jesuitise is a verb.
- What is the past tense of jesuitise?
- The past tense of jesuitise is jesuitised.
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