Jesuitically

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a Jesuitical manner; with equivocation or mental reservation; with cunningly dissembled policy.

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1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 570. Your protestation … must be vnderstood Iesuitically, with mentall limitation.

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1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, xxxiii. 177. If you have ever so many ugly [qualities], they will be either palliated, or jesuitically interpreted into good ones.

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1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiv. III. 453. To reason more Jesuitically than the Jesuits themselves.

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