Jesuitize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To convert to the form of catholicism practiced by the Jesuits; to make (more) Jesuit. transitive
"It will be equally clear that it is their project to Jesuitize, besides all the other orders, the papacy itself; and, as the nec plus ultra of the metamorphoses they are effecting by their mysterious strategy, to Jesuitize the whole world."
- 2 Alternative form of Jesuitize. alt-of, alternative
"Or will St. Ignatius Loyola inquisitionize and jesuitize them all?"
- 3 To argue like a Jesuit; to engage in sophistry (about). intransitive, transitive
"It is a curious circumstance that the opponents of Spiritualism so continually fly across the Atlantic for their charges against it. Here Mr. Foster Jesuitizes again. They are American myths that these Jesuit fathers particularly deal in. , Spiritualism is widely spread in England; its results are well known; all its facts are most easy of ascertainment; why, then, do not these genglemen draw their statistics from home?"
Example
More examples"It will be equally clear that it is their project to Jesuitize, besides all the other orders, the papacy itself; and, as the nec plus ultra of the metamorphoses they are effecting by their mysterious strategy, to Jesuitize the whole world."
Etymology
From Jesuit + -ize.
More for "jesuitize"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.