jesuit : Idioms & Phrases

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jesuit order

  • noun 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
    Society of Jesus.
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jesuit's bark

  • noun medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine
    cinchona bark; Peruvian bark; cinchona.
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Jesuits' bark

  • Peruvian bark, or the bark of certain species of Cinchona; so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America.
Webster 1913

Jesuits' drops

  • . See Friar's balsam, under Friar.
Webster 1913

Jesuits' nut

  • noun a variety of water chestnut
    Trapa natans; water caltrop.
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  • the European water chestnut.
Webster 1913

Jesuits' powder

  • powdered cinchona bark.
Webster 1913

Jesuits' tea

  • a Chilian leguminous shrub, used as a tea and medicinally.
Webster 1913