JESUIT


Meaning of JESUIT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

order

Inside it is richly decorated and of the typical open style dictated by the Jesuit Order .

The Jesuit Order agreed to his release.

No Protestant would ever name a child Ignatius, after the founder of the Jesuit order .

priest

So they call out the local Jesuit priest , he takes a good sniff and says it's haunted.

Her brother Greg was a Jesuit priest , and she was drawn to the order because of its work with the poor.

A Jesuit priest , Father Jon Cortina, started the search for missing children when the war ended in 1992.

His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli, a Jesuit priest .

Thus Buddhism is enjoying a great flowering in the West at present; Jesuit priests are studying meditation from Zen practitioners.

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But Pascal, under the influence of Jansenism, was fundamentally hostile to the Jesuits and their notorious sophistries.

He is hoping the functions will not attract Manresa's hidden resident - it is supposedly haunted by a Jesuit monk!

In 1982 Tom celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as a Jesuit , and the parish threw him a party.

Of all parties, it was, ironically, the Jesuits who complained most in Maryland.

Perhaps three out of ten who began Jesuit formation stayed the course.

Shortly before he joined the Jesuits he burned all he had written, as a sacrifice to his vocation.

The city boasted a college of law, established in the sixteenth century, and a Jesuit college.

Their written petition gives some indication as to how much the Jesuits had mastered the delicate art of memorializing the emperor.

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