jesuitic

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Now they listened as Cuomo laboriously reviewed the Jesuitic logic that undergirded every statement he had ever made about running.

From Time Magazine Archive

“There is no doubt about it,” Des Esseintes mused, as he reasoned the matter and followed the progress of this introduction of the Jesuitic spirit into Fontenay.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

Such are the terms of the Jesuitic decree.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

Of the monuments with which Richelieu would have ornamented his town there remains a curious market-hall and a church in the pure Jesuitic style of architecture, lacking nothing of pretence and grandeur.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

However here, too, a Jesuitic reaction set in.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)