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JESUIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Jesuit order
Classified under:
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))
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