| See under Jesuit (def. 1). |
[jezh-oo-it, jez-oo-, jez-yoo-] 
| 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. |
| 3. | of or pertaining to Jesuits or Jesuitism. |
| Society of Jesus n. Roman Catholic Church An order of regular clergy, founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534, that is strongly committed to education, theological scholarship, and missionary work. |