jesuit
IPA: dʒˈɛʒuɪt
Root Word: Jesuit
noun
- (Catholicism) a member of the Society of Jesus
- (obsolete) A crafty person; an intriguer.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of this society or its members
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Examples of "jesuit" in Sentences
- The direction was committed to the Jesuits.
- Discernment is by no means limited to the Jesuit order.
- The and s criticize the Jesuits' legitimation of homicide.
- The Naples Documents show another story untold by the Jesuits.
- I went to a jesuit high school and watched that movie each year.
- The rest of the letters are mainly an attack on Jesuit casuistry.
- The Jesuits strongly represented the autocratic zeal of the period.
- He was also the last before the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773.
- The recumbent statue of the Jesuit was sculpted by Agostino Cornacchini.
- Harboring a jesuit priest could have ended up with Penelope being arrested.
- The Jesuits had to accommodate to the nomadic habits of the Guale and Orista.
- Before heading home, Gordon said he's still miffed about the defeat to Jesuit.
- We must remember that JESUIT GENERAL or jesuit military department is said to be in control of all intelligences ...?
- God love ya, says Biden, (Oh ya, when i quote him, inevitably there is a blurt of how zionist he is, apparently, and jesuit), whatever ... such defensiveness.
- Scrabble's North American owner, and Merriam-Webster, publisher of the players dictionary, to delete several dozen words, among them "jesuit," "libber" and "fart."
- Some of your old tory friends think that there is design in all you write on these questions, and do not hesitate to designate you by the amiable title of a "jesuit," etc.
- It is Teilhard de Chardin, the jesuit priest, paleontologist and explorer of the soul, whose life work was the reinterpretation of Christianity in the light of evolution, who stands impatiently at the summit of man's quest for the ultimate truth proclaiming to all that God is Love.
- ---- Upon which the provost, going along with him to the house where the pretended jesuit was, and entering the room, he immediately knew Mr. Durham, and saluted him as laird of Easter Powrie, craving his pardon for their mistake, and turning to the parson, asked where the person was he called the jesuit?
- Among all those tribes, commencing with the Shoshones, the Arapahoes, the gros-Ventres, the Blackfeet, the Piegans, the river crows, the Bloods and Assiniboines, the only ray of light I saw was on the Flathead Reservation at the jesuit mission schools, and there were boys and girls -- fifty boys and fifty girls.
- She belonged to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, mumbled special orisons, revered “the holy blood,” venerated “the sacred heart,” remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and through great rays of gilded wood.