jesuit order

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jesuit order - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Jesuit order
      n 1: a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola
           in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and
           to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly
           committed to education and scholarship [syn: Society of Jesus
           , Jesuit order]