Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
[syn: Society of Jesus, Jesuit order]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Jesuit order
n 1: 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 [syn: Society of
Jesus, Jesuit order]