a. Now rare. [f. as prec. + -IC: cf. F. jésuitique.]
1. = next, 1.
1804. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., II. 254. The other secret directors of the jesuitic interest.
1888. Biblioth. Sacra, Jan., 194. The Jesuitic maxim, that ‘he who has the schools has the future.’
2. = next, 2.
1640. R. Baillie, Canterb. Self-Convict., Postscr. 2. In these Iesuiticke arts yee prove so excellent.
1788. H. Walpole, in Walpoliana, Caution to yng. Auth., 23. Pope was, perhaps, too refined and Jesuitic a professor of authorship.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, vi. (1858), 361. A hypocrite shrouding himself in confused Jesuitic jargon!
