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Definitions for JESUIT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an intriguer, a prevaricator
• a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St Ignatius Loyola, St Francis Xavier, and others in 1534, to do missionary work. The order was zealous in opposing the Reformation. Despite periodic persecution it has retained an important influence in Catholic thought and education.
• offensive term for a person given to subtle and equivocating arguments
• One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.
• Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer.
• a member of the Jesuit order
ADJECTIVE:
• having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 and devoted to missionary and educational work

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Words that contain JESUIT

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How to use JESUIT in a sentence

• The bronze statue of De Smet, the Jesuit missionary, looked calmly on the scene.
• In the second edition there were added, further, the Seventh Objections, by the Jesuit Bourdin, and the Replies of the author thereto.
• The Jesuit party was extending and strengthening an organization all over Germany, based on the principle that state legislation in ecclesiastical matters is not binding.
• Nicholas, and the Jesuit church of the Immaculate Conception, and the silvery bell of the Loire itself.
• Jesuit missionaries played a part in the negotiations as interpreters.
• I was placed in a Jesuit seminary, not by my own choice, but by that of my father, to whom I owed obedience.
• More laborers are needed for the Jesuit missions, as well as for those conducted by the friars.
• Father Poujet, a shrewd and subtle Jesuit, was sent to converse with him.
• On June 1 of the same year Felipe grants to the Jesuit college at Manila an annual income for sixteen years.
• There were then in Nepaul a few Christians, converted by a Jesuit mission.
• Jesuit missionaries have been propagating the faith in the province since the seventeenth century.
• And Anthony was not alone in his impressions of the Jesuit.
• He showed great favour to the Jesuit priests, and even allowed two of his nephews to be instructed in the Christian religion.
• The Jesuit went, often alone, where no others dared to go, and he faced unknown dangers which had all the possibilities of torture and martyrdom.
• During the first few years of Jesuit effort among the Indians of New France the results were pitifully small.
• One has a genius for organization probably never surpassed, if equalled, by military general, or Jesuit chief, or modern captain of industry.
• He also told me just now that he has to leave home this evening on business, but immediately he told me that, our footman saw the Jesuit go out of the house.
• There is no university or provincial institute of second grade instruction, and only one college, which is under the direction of Jesuit priests.
• The Chinese used them only as raisins, but wine was made there for the use of the early Jesuit Missions, and their successors continue to make it.
• Chirino relates the progress of the Jesuit mission during the year 1596-97.
• He not only maintains the usual services in the Jesuit church there, but undertakes to instruct the Chinese, whose language he soon learns sufficiently for that purpose.
• In Mexico he meets orders from the general of the Jesuit order that Diego Garcia shall go with a reenforcement of laborers to the Philippines.
• The bishop confirms, in the Jesuit missions, about three thousand Christians, and wins their hearts by his paternal love and benevolence.
• Takayama is spoken of in the Jesuit Records as Justo Ucondono.
• He entered the Jesuit order when already a priest, in 1582.
• He studied theology at Alcala de Henares, but took the Jesuit habit in Mexico.
• If we give that odious old Jesuit the chance, he will make a priest of Romayne before we know where we are.
• Under the triumphant exertions of that Apostolic Jesuit, St.

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