Crossword-Solution: JESUIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jesuit | n. | One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus. |
| Jesuit | n. | Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with JESUIT (5)
And many a missionary, sternly fortified by his sense of duty, would not have been troubled by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman.
The Jesuit editors of the ½Acta Sanctorum¸, or Lives of the Saints; Ð named from John Bolland, who began the work.
The mere operation makes me feel as if I were going through Oxford--or passing the final Jesuit examinations.
Perhaps the most remarkable organization ever known among American Indians, that of the “Grand Medicine Lodge,” was apparently an indirect result of the labors of the early Jesuit missionaries.
The author of the "Provincial Letters" entertained the honest Christians of the seventeenth century at the expense of Escobar, the Jesuit, and the contract Mohatra.
Quotes with JESUIT (3)
Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.
So much learning," one of my Jesuit teachers has said, "so little wisdom." To put it another way, a civilization does become more technologically skilled and more learned about science, and perhaps even a little smarter as well, when it is permitted to grow for hundreds of years and spread itself from pole to pole; but we also have more tools to turn out as badly as our ancestors said we might.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1962–2023).