JESUIT
Dictionary entry overview: What does Jesuit mean?
• JESUIT (noun)
The noun JESUIT has 1 sense:
1. a member of the Jesuit order
Familiarity information: JESUIT used as a noun is very rare.
• JESUIT (adjective)
The adjective JESUIT has 1 sense:
1. having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
Familiarity information: JESUIT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• JESUIT (noun)
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)
• JESUIT (adjective)
Meaning:
Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
Jesuit; Jesuitic; Jesuitical
Context example:
Jesuitical education
Pertainym:
Jesuit (a member of the Jesuit order)
Jesuitism (the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic))
