jesuitize

Verb capitalized: Jesuitize

Jesuitize (third-person singular simple present Jesuitizes, present participle Jesuitizing, simple past and past participle Jesuitized)

1. (transitive) 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
   • 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...1874, Hiram K. Stimson, T. W. Greene, From the Stage Coach to the Pulpit, page 367
2. (intransitive, transitive) 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
   • First, it implicates Christ in moral evil; it makes him out-Jesuitize the Jesuits in the trade of questionable distinctions.1957, Biblical Criticism, page 31