Jesuit
['dʒezjuit;'dʒeʒuit]
Definition
(n.) One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.
(n.) Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer.
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Definition
n. a member of the famous religious order the Society of Jesus founded in 1534 by Ignatius Loyola: a crafty or insidious person an intriguer.—v.t. to make a Jesuit of.—adjs. Jesuit′ic -al.—adv. Jesuit′ically.—ns. Jes′uitism Jesuitry: the principles and practices of the Jesuits: cunning: deceit; Jesuitoc′racy government by Jesuits; Jes′uitry Jesuitism.—Jesuits' bark cinchona because introduced to Rome by Jesuit missionaries.
Editor: Nolan
Examples
- The Jesuit accounts describe a country greatly devastated by perpetual feudal war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was the great Jesuit Church. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yet see how my Jesuit's system works. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Ryan, a Jesuit priest in Jamaica, and I have received a letter from him, from which I will read you an extract: ‘26 North Street, Kingston, Jamaica, ‘February 24, 1882. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- So I told him my impressions concerning his Jesuit-system. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- By dint of persuasion, I made him half-define these hints; they amounted to crafty Jesuit-slanders. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is in communities like this that Jesuit humbuggery flourishes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We visited a Jesuit cathedral nearly two hundred years old and found in it a piece of the veritable cross upon which our Saviour was crucified. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That jesuit had travelled over the whole country, and had no inclination to represent it as less inconsiderable than it really was. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The only well-dressed Portuguese in the camp are the half a dozen well-to-do families, the Jesuit priests, and the soldiers of the little garrison. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is bad when your fame outruns your means, said the Spanish Jesuit Gracian. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Thomas Porter, the head of the Jesuit Mission in the West Indies. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Mr. Vincy was very little like a Jesuit, but no accomplished Jesuit could have turned a question more adroitly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Some day it may be we shall see a new order of Jesuits, vowed not to the service of the Pope, but to the service of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Emanuel had been brought up amongst Jesuits. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Jesuits, in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Jesuits of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries took the place of the magicians of the Middle Ages. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Jesuits took up the gage he had thrown down, and Galileo found the Church of Rome arrayed against him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This was the foundation of the Society of the Jesuits by Inigo Lopez de Recalde, better known to the world to-day as Saint Ignatius of Loyola. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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