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jesuit

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1. jesuit - Noun

2. jesuit - Adjective

Meaning

One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.

Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. Albert Einstein

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order. Daniel Berrigan

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. Michael Moriarty

Protestant success, at first amazingly rapid, was checked mainly as a resultant of Loyola's creation of the Jesuit order. Ignatius of Loyola

Jesuitical education Source: Internet

;17th century * Historia da Ethiopia, Pedro Páez (aka Pero Pais), Portugal, 1620 :A Jesuit missionary who was sent from Goa to Ethiopia in 1589 and remained in the area until his death in 1622. Source: Internet

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