Term: society of jesus: 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
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: cornish heath: bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: margarine: a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: plasmid: a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: time constant: the ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: mylodon: large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: pylon: a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: costume: unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: fulmination: thunderous verbal attack
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: wave: something that rises rapidly
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: flat bench: a bench on which a weightlifter lies to do exercises