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US
/ˈdʒɛʒuɪt/
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NOUN
- a member of the Jesuit order
ADJECTIVE
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having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
Jesuitical education
How To Use Jesuit In A Sentence
- He is bringing back the problem of jesuitical thinking, a mode of thought characterized by "dissembling and equivocating in a manner once associated with Jesuits. Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame
- It was designing of him, what Brother Polycarp would have called Jesuitical, and it troubled him, the deceit. At Swim, Two Boys
- A few months ago a friend sent me an article entitled "The Eucharist in the West" by the Irish Jesuit Michael McGuckian (New Blackfriars, March 2007), which also draws on De Lubac's work which had showed that prior to 1050 the term Body of Christ had referred to the Church and that the Eucharist had been referred to as the Mystical Body, but that that after this the Eucharist became the Body of Christ and the Church came to be referred to as the Mystical Body. Orrologion
- Perhaps the most ecumenically minded Catholic independent schools are the twenty-one members of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, and many Jesuit schools also have substantial non-Catholic enrollments.
- He felt insecure because his Catholic education was so exiguous — it amounted to one year at a Jesuit prep school in England. Daredevil
- The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
- Instead, Brown has treated us to a tortuous, Jesuitical argument so self-contradictory it merits its own reprimand.
- But Benedict, however "charming," is still stifling theologians who challenge ideas about Catholicism, says Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and former editor of the Jesuit-owned magazine America. U.S. visit will give pope a defining moment
- 'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. ' Gladys, the Reaper
- The Jesuit astronomers at the Roman college fêted him at a special conference.