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Jes⋅u⋅it

  [jezh-oo-it, jez-oo-, jez-yoo-]
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–noun
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.
–adjective
3. of or pertaining to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
Origin:
1550–60; < NL Jēsuita, equiv. to L Jēsu(s) + -ita -ite 1
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Jes·u·it   (jězh'ōō-ĭt, jěz'ōō-, -yōō-)   
n.  

  1. Roman Catholic Church A member of the Society of Jesus.

  2. often jesuit One given to subtle casuistry.


[French Jésuite, from Jésus, Jesus, from Late Latin Iēsus; see Jesus1.]
Jes'u·it'i·cal adj., Jes'u·it'i·cal·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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