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Jesuitical

Jesuitic \Jes`u*it"ic\, Jesuitical \Jes`u*it"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. j['e]suitique.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.

  2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
    --Dryden.

Usage examples of "jesuitical".

Randy manages to glimpse her face in the rearview as she makes another dramatic lateral move, and sees there a look of almost nauseous trepidation, as if this equal-division concept might be some Jesuitical snare.

Randy finds this answer appropriately sophisticated and Jesuitical and eerily in sync with what Avi has written into the latest edition of the Epiphyte(2) Business Plan.