单词 | Jesuit |
释义 | Word Frequency Jesuit(ˈdʒɛzjʊɪt) noun 1. a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (the Society of Jesus) founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534 with the aims of defending the papacy and Catholicism against the Reformation and to undertake missionary work among the heathen 2. (sometimes not capital) informal a person given to subtle and equivocating arguments; casuist Derived forms Jesuitic (ˌJesuˈitic) or Jesuitical (ˌJesuˈitical) adjective Jesuitically (Jesuˈitically) adverb Word origin C16: from New Latin Jēsuita, from Late Latin Jēsus + -ita -ite1 |
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