jesuitize means to convert to the form of catholicism practiced by the Jesuits; to make (more) Jesuit. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Jesuit + -ize.
verb
- To convert to the form of catholicism practiced by the Jesuits; to make (more) Jesuit.“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.”
- To argue like a Jesuit; to engage in sophistry (about).“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 thei”