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Definitions for Jesuit
[1] a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
[2] (often lowercase ) a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person: so called in allusion to the methods ascribed to the order by its opponents.
[3] of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
[4] a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (the Society of Jesus ) founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534 with the aims of defending the papacy and Catholicism against the Reformation and to undertake missionary work among the heathen
[5] (sometimes not capital) informal , offensive a person given to subtle and equivocating arguments; casuist
Origin of Jesuit
1550–60; < New Latin Jēsuita, equivalent to Latin Jēsu(s ) + -ita -ite1
Other words from Jesuit
an·ti-Jes·u·it , noun, adjective
Word origin for Jesuit
C16: from New Latin Jēsuita, from Late Latin Jēsus + -ita -ite 1