v. [See -IZE.]
1. intr. To play the Jesuit; to propound Jesuitical doctrines.
1644. R. Harwood, King David’s Sanctuary, 14. Either the Jesuite doth Platonize, or Plato did Jesuitize, when he first sent abroad his Deos intermedios.
1825. Blackw. Mag., XVIII. 234. The opinions of universities either Jesuitizing like Bossuet, or trembling before the coming storm.
2. trans. To imbue with Jesuit principles; to make Jesuitical. Hence Jesuitized ppl. a.
1679. C. Nesse, Antid. agst. Popery, 151. Which all jesuitiz’d papists have received.
1830. Southey, in Q. Rev., XLIII. 31. How nearly Jesuitized Christianity had become the ruling religion in Japan.
1885. Mrs. H. Ward, trans. Amiel’s Jrnl., II. 92. A population jesuitised by education.
