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"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.
To characterize a lie as an "economy of truth" would be a Jesuitical formulation.
that's just too Jesuitical for words."
Imagine it: In the daytime, Jesuitical preparations for long uphill organizing drives.
William Safire argues that "Jesuitical" has by now developed a sense devoid of any overtones of prevarication: "subtle, intricate, moralistic reasoning, informed by a rigorous logic" is his definition.
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