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How can you use “jesuitical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Imagine it: In the daytime, Jesuitical preparations for long uphill organizing drives.
To characterize a lie as an "economy of truth" would be a Jesuitical formulation.
Judge: "It's too Jesuitical . You probably didn't go to a Jesuit school."
"Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.
Most of his previous Jesuitical initiatives--against jaywalking, speeding, gridlock, and the failure to wear seatbelts, among others--have been announced well in advance, so that notice was served that as of a certain date, things were going to be different.
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