jesuit

n. a person who uses clever but perhaps dishonest tricks to get what they want.

n. a person given to intrigue or equivocation. This sense is historically derogatory and stems from Protestant suspicions of the order's perceived cunning.

“In the old play, the villain was described as a Jesuit because of his secret plans.”

“The political pamphlets of the seventeenth century frequently used the term Jesuit as a synonym for a deceptive schemer.”

Archaic

adj. describing something that belongs to or is about the Society of Jesus.

adj. of or relating to the Society of Jesus, its members, or its characteristic methods of education and theology.

“She attended a Jesuit high school that was famous for its strict academic standards.”

“The library contains a vast collection of Jesuit manuscripts detailing the order's scientific observations during the Enlightenment.”