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]