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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



... 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 belief that the Jesuit, ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... been said before of the Society of Jesus." But he spoke with the wise man's tolerance for the discoveries of the young. Still, it was not to discuss the merits of his Order that he had got up an hour before his time. "I understand, maybe better than yourself, something of the restlessness ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... to expedite to you the R. P. Oliva, general ad interim of the Society of Jesus, my provisional successor. The reverend father will explain to you, Monsieur Colbert, that I preserve to myself the direction of all the affairs of the order which concern France and Spain; but that I am not willing to ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... against their kind, and could retire into themselves with one idea which the most remarkable men had not,—all this constituted a religion of pleasure and egoism which made fanatics of the Thirteen. The history of the Society of Jesus was repeated for the Devil's benefit. It ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac


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