/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; Jesuita, equiv. to L Jesu ( s ) + -ita -ITE 1 ]