Jesuit order

Other forms: Jesuit orders

Definitions of Jesuit order
  1. noun
    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
    synonyms: Society of Jesus
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    type of:
    monastic order, order
    a group of person living under a religious rule
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