[f. prec. sb.]
† 1. intr. To act the Jesuit. Obs. rare.
1601. Archpr. Controv., (1898), II. 164. Yf we would have Jesuited and caried so small a respect to charity.
† 2. trans. To make a Jesuit of; to imbue with Jesuit principles. Chiefly in pa. pple. Obs.
1601. [Watson] (title), Important Considerations, vvhich ovght to move all trve and sovnd Catholickes, who are not wholly Iesuited [etc.].
1621. in Crt. & Times Jas. I. (1849), II. 274. He is … popishly affected, and even jesuited.
† 3. To dose with Jesuits’ bark: see prec. 4 c. Obs. nonce-use.
1689. G. Harvey, Curing Dis. by Expect., iv. 32. The course of bleeding … purging and Jesuiting.
4. Used by Freeman for: To alter (an ancient church) into the Renaissance style, in which the Jesuits commonly built their churches, c. 1560–1680.
1872. Freeman, in W. R. W. Stephens, Life & Lett. (1895), II. 59. St. Michael’s has been Jesuited inside. Ibid. (1876), Hist. Sk., Ancona, 155. That [taste] which condemned the north transept and the crypt below it to be mercilessly Jesuited. Ibid. (1891), Sk. fr. French Trav., Ser. IV. 76. A systematic Jesuiting which the church underwent.
