ALL meanings of jesuit
Jes·u·it
J j - noun jesuit member of Catholic order 1
- noun jesuit a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534. 1
- noun jesuit (often lowercase) a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person: so called in allusion to the methods ascribed to the order by its opponents. 1
- adjective jesuit of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism. 1
- noun jesuit (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) a member of the Society of Jesus. 0
- noun jesuit (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A crafty person; an intriguer. 0
- adjective jesuit of, relating to, or characteristic of this society or its members. 0
- countable noun jesuit A Jesuit is a Catholic priest who belongs to the Society of Jesus. 0
- noun jesuit 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 0
- noun jesuit a person given to subtle and equivocating arguments; casuist 0
- noun jesuit a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order for men, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 0
- noun jesuit a crafty schemer; cunning dissembler; casuist 0