单词 | Jesuit |
释义 | Jesuit /jezh"ooh it, jez"ooh-, jez"yooh-/, n. 1. a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534. 2. (often l.c.) a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person: so called in allusion to the methods ascribed to the order by its opponents. adj. 3. of or pertaining to Jesuits or Jesuitism. [1550-60; < NL Jesuita, equiv. to L Jesu(s) + -ita -ITE1] |
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