jesuits are educators known as the intellectuals of the church; they also have a long missionary tradition.
The family was English Catholic and Alfred, like his brother and sister, was raised in the faith, educated by jesuits.
“At age 14, Carl was taken in by jesuits and given the opportunity to earn his way to Georgetown University,” his website says.
Perhaps I should have disclosed earlier that I was educated by jesuits and have been a university professor.
That was a difficult time for the Society: an entire generation of jesuits had disappeared.
Pierre, hitherto, had never believed in the terrible legend of the jesuits.
Nevertheless he could not help recalling the extraordinary story of the jesuits.
And what overwhelming success attends the efforts of the jesuits!
The jesuits are for France, because they are for wealth, strength, and courage.
It was carried away, and as they were jesuits nothing was done.
1540s, from Modern Latin Jesuita, member of the Society of Jesus, founded 1533 by Ignatius Loyola to combat Protestantism. Their enemies (in both Catholic and Protestant lands) accused them of belief that ends justify means, hence the sense "a dissembling person" (1630s), and jesuitical "deceitful" (1610s).
A religious order of men in the Roman Catholic Church; its official name is the Society of Jesus. Founded by Ignatius of Loyola in the sixteenth century, the society became the spearhead of the Counter Reformation.
Note: The Jesuit order has a long tradition of vigorous missionary work and of intellectual and scholarly achievement. The Jesuits have also been known historically for their influence, often behind the scenes, in European politics and for their skill and resourcefulness in debate — characteristics that have sometimes led people to mistrust them. In recent years, they have become better known as free-ranging thinkers on religious and political questions.
