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jesuitise

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jesuitise (third-person singular simple present jesuitises, present participle jesuitising, simple past and past participle jesuitised)

  1. Alternative form of Jesuitize
    • 1887, Henri Frédéric Amiel, Journal, page 92:
      To preach liberalism to a population jesuitised by education, is to press the pleasures of dancing upon a man who has lost a leg.
    • 1902, Frank Hugh O'Donnell, The Ruin of Education in Ireland and the Irish Fanar, page 74:
      They are exercising in London a most pernicious jesuitised influence.