We first hear of the term Jesuit in 1544, applied as a term of reproach by adversaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The Honolulu-born Jesuit is the past president of Gonzaga University and is also well-known philosopher and physicist who is involved in bringing science and theology together. From Wordnik.com. [Three priests] Reference
"Who called Jesuit?" said I, pulling out my sword. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference
The Jesuit was the director of M. Flaminio Corner, an old senator, and then a State Inquisitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Recently spotted filed underneath “SUSPENSE” in Jesuit Service Cambodia’s office collection of DVDS. From Wordnik.com. [Broadening the genre. « Planning the Day] Reference
Order at Paris, where they were annually published, in duodecimo volumes, forming the remarkable series known as the Jesuit Relations. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Tribes in Canada and along the Great Lakes called Jesuit missionaries Black Robes in yet another nickname related to outlandish apparel. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1] Reference
So likewise is the so-called Jesuit oath, a clumsy fabrication of the forger Robert Ware, exposed by Bridget in "Blunders and Forgeries". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
An Allegory of the Crown of Life, also called A Jesuit Conversion, An Allegory of Salvation and An Allegory of Repentance. From Wordnik.com. [Another Two Allegories by Juan de Valdés Leal] Reference
It became the model of the style known as "Jesuit". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
The Jesuit was a man of letters, he taught Irish literature, (. From Wordnik.com. Reference
(I would have preferred "Jesuit", but apparently that has already been taken). From Wordnik.com. [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles] Reference
A kind of Jesuit he too; -- write him not, as the Dictionaries too often do, Jambon, which signifies mere Ham. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Housed in a former Jesuit seminary in Lenox, Mass. From Wordnik.com. [Alone At Last. . .] Reference
"My father was brought up as a Jesuit, and my mother was a convert," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Mortality, Morbidity And More] Reference
Red Cloud, a 101-year-old Jesuit-run institution, was more like a prep school on the Great Plains. From Wordnik.com. [This Year's Role Model] Reference
At the Jesuit high school I attended, the priests never feared to lay a friendly or restraining hand on students. From Wordnik.com. [Bing Crosby Had It Right] Reference
Jesuit priests told him, he says, that they experienced a stampede at the confession box after the film's release. From Wordnik.com. [The Regan Era] Reference
For charisma, Tettamanzi cannot measure up to Martini, a polylingual Jesuit, Biblical scholar, preacher and world traveler. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
For better or worse, there's no denying that living Jesuit-school alumni already include many determined to change the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Classroom Reality] Reference
"Imagine your grandfather or great-grandfather running a corporation," says James Martin, who works at the Jesuit magazine America. From Wordnik.com. [How to Sell a Better Pope] Reference
Nineteen of the 27 Salvadoran officers whom a U.N. Truth Commission report implicated in the Jesuit murders were graduates of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Running A 'School For Dictators'] Reference
But in Japan, Jesuit and then Franciscan missionaries were brutally persecuted under the 16th-century shoguns for trying to sow the faith. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Karma] Reference
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