JESUIT

noun Etymology: New Latin ~a, from Late Latin Jesus Date: 1548 a member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 and devoted to missionary and educational work, one given to intrigue or equivocation, jesuitical also jesuitic adjective, often capitalized jesuitically adverb, often capitalized jesuitism or jesuitry noun, often capitalized