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Society of Jesus   /səsˈaɪəti əv dʒˈizəs/   Listen
noun
Society  n.  (pl. societies)  
1.
The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." "There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar."
2.
Connection; participation; partnership. (R.) "The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings."
3.
A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.
4.
The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.
5.
Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
Society of Jesus. See Jesuit.
Society verses, the lightest kind of lyrical poetry; verses for the amusement of polite society.


proper noun
Jesus  n.  The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins." Note: The form Jesu is often used, esp. in the vocative. "Jesu, do thou my soul receive."
The Society of Jesus. The Roman Catholic order whose members are called Jesuits. See Jesuit.





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"Society of jesus" Quotes from Famous Books



... time before, in Brussels, Wolf had seen a superior of the new Society of Jesus, whose members were now appearing everywhere as defenders of the violently assailed papacy, seek to win back to Catholicism the son of evangelical parents with the very same arguments. He told his friend this, and also expressed the ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... The author visited this region and sketched some of the ruins of these Jesuit-Guarani missions, of which scarcely one stone has remained on the other. They were destroyed by the Brazilians after the suppression of the Society of Jesus by Pope Clement XIV in 1773; the defenseless Indians were cruelly butchered or carried off as slaves. The sculptured remains of temples, of gardens and orchards grown into jungles still attest the high degree of development attained by these missions ...
— The History of Puerto Rico - From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation • R.A. Van Middeldyk
... A fever medicine, consisting of various drugs made up into a hard ball, lately invented in India by Gaspar Antonio, a lay brother of the Society of Jesus.] ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... Piat and Brother Gabriel Sagard were sent to entreat to the rescue of the Canadian mission the greatest of all the missionary orders—an order which 'had filled the whole world with memorials of great things done and suffered for the Faith'—the militant and powerful Society of Jesus. ...
— The Jesuit Missions: - A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness • Thomas Guthrie Marquis


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