jesuitize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To convert to the form of catholicism practiced by the Jesuits; to make (more) Jesuit.
Transitive verb
verb
Alternative form of Jesuitize.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He belongs to the Jesuits. He has given names to streams and other natural objects in the region of the Mission, and has built some very substantial buildings for the uses of his church; but, although the Mission has been established forty-eight years, and every possible appliance has been used to civilize and educate and Jesuitize this tribe, yet, up to this time, not the first son or daughter of the Osages has been converted to Christianity, or even to Catholicism!"
- "Opposition to this "shortness of scope" was especially common among older students training for the secular priesthood who resented what they perceived as efforts to "Jesuitize" them."
- "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?"
- "First, it implicates Christ in moral evil; it makes him out-Jesuitize the Jesuits in the trade of questionable distinctions."
- "In philosophy, however, the liberal renegades decided to tell the whole truth, to reveal all their programme (war on materialism and the materialist interpretation of positivism, restoration of mysticism and the mystical world outlook), whereas on publicist subjects they prevaricate and hedge and Jesuitize."
Etymology
From Jesuit + -ize.