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JESUIT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Jesuit order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Jesuit" is a kind of...):

religious (a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience)

Holonyms ("Jesuit" is a member of...):

Jesuit order; Society of Jesus (a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship)

Derivation:

Jesuitic; Jesuitical (having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism

Example:

Jesuitical education

Synonyms:

Jesuit; Jesuitic; Jesuitical

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Jesuit (a member of the Jesuit order)

Jesuitism (the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic))

Credits