Jesuit meaning

jĕzh'o͝o-ĭt, jĕz'o͝o-, -yo͝o-
A member of the Society of Jesus.
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One given to subtle casuistry.
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A member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order for men, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534
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A crafty schemer; cunning dissembler.
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(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) A member of the Society of Jesus.
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of this society or its members.
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Origin of jesuit

French Jésuite from Jésus Jesus from Late Latin Iēsus Jesus1

Sentence Examples

  • A former Jesuit monastery is now used for a grammar school and seminary.

  • He was admitted a Jesuit in 1612, and afterwards sent on mission work to Chile and Peru, where he became rector of the college of Cuenca.

  • But the most celebrated writer of this period was the Jesuit Francis Faludi, the translator, through the Italian, of William Darrell's works.

  • It is the seat of a Greek bishop, an Armenian archbishop and a Roman Catholic bishop, and there is a Jesuit school.

  • The Jesuit system of education, set forth in the Ratio studiorum, owes nothing to him.

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