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This present Paquette received of a learned Grey Friar, who had traced it to its source; he had had it of an old countess, who had received it from a cavalry captain, who owed it to a marchioness, who took it from a page, who had received it from a Jesuit, who when a novice had it in a direct line from one of the companions of Christopher Columbus.†
Chpt 4

Jesuit = a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
A fleet was there getting ready, and troops assembling to bring to reason the reverend Jesuit Fathers of Paraguay, accused of having made one of the native tribes in the neighborhood of San Sacrament revolt against the Kings of Spain and Portugal.†
Chpt 10
XIV HOW CANDIDE AND CACAMBO WERE RECEIVED BY THE JESUITS OF PARAGUAY.†
Chpt 14

Jesuits = members of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
"By St. James of Compostella," said Cacambo, "you were going to fight against the Jesuits; let us go to fight for them; I know the road well, I'll conduct you to their kingdom, where they will be charmed to have a captain that understands the Bulgarian exercise.†
Chpt 14
He was a very handsome young man, with a full face, white skin but high in colour; he had an arched eyebrow, a lively eye, red ears, vermilion lips, a bold air, but such a boldness as neither belonged to a Spaniard nor a Jesuit.†
Chpt 14

Jesuit = a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
"You are, then, a German?" said the Jesuit to him in that language.†
Chpt 14
"And from what part of Germany do you come?" said the Jesuit.†
Chpt 14
You, a Jesuit in Paraguay!†
Chpt 14
When the Bulgarians retired, my dear sister could not be found; but my mother, my father, and myself, with two maid-servants and three little boys all of whom had been slain, were put in a hearse, to be conveyed for interment to a chapel belonging to the Jesuits, within two leagues of our family seat.†
Chpt 15

Jesuits = members of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
A Jesuit sprinkled us with some holy water; it was horribly salt; a few drops of it fell into my eyes; the father perceived that my eyelids stirred a little; he put his hand upon my heart and felt it beat.†
Chpt 15

Jesuit = a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
The Father-General needed new levies of young German-Jesuits.†
Chpt 15

Jesuits = members of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
The sovereigns of Paraguay admit as few Spanish Jesuits as possible; they prefer those of other nations as being more subordinate to their commands.
Chpt 15 *
"We shall see that, thou scoundrel!" said the Jesuit Baron de Thunder-ten-Tronckh, and that instant struck him across the face with the flat of his sword.†
Chpt 15

Jesuit = a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
Candide in an instant drew his rapier, and plunged it up to the hilt in the Jesuit's belly; but in pulling it out reeking hot, he burst into tears.†
Chpt 15
Cacambo, who had been in a great many scrapes in his lifetime, did not lose his head; he took the Baron's Jesuit habit, put it on Candide, gave him the square cap, and made him mount on horseback.†
Chpt 15
Let us gallop fast, master, everybody will take you for a Jesuit, going to give directions to your men, and we shall have passed the frontiers before they will be able to overtake us.†
Chpt 15
Candide and his valet had got beyond the barrier, before it was known in the camp that the German Jesuit was dead.†
Chpt 16
If I have committed a sin in killing an Inquisitor and a Jesuit, I have made ample amends by saving the lives of these girls.†
Chpt 16
Some were making a large cauldron boil, others were preparing spits, and all cried: "A Jesuit!†
Chpt 16
a Jesuit!†
Chpt 16
we shall be revenged, we shall have excellent cheer, let us eat the Jesuit, let us eat him up!†
Chpt 16
"Gentlemen," said Cacambo, "you reckon you are to-day going to feast upon a Jesuit.†
Chpt 16
You believe that you are going to spit a Jesuit, and he is your defender.†
Chpt 16
As for myself, I was born in your country; this gentleman is my master, and, far from being a Jesuit, he has just killed one, whose spoils he wears; and thence comes your mistake.†
Chpt 16
To convince you of the truth of what I say, take his habit and carry it to the first barrier of the Jesuit kingdom, and inform yourselves whether my master did not kill a Jesuit officer.†
Chpt 16
To convince you of the truth of what I say, take his habit and carry it to the first barrier of the Jesuit kingdom, and inform yourselves whether my master did not kill a Jesuit officer.†
Chpt 16
The Oreillons untied their prisoners, showed them all sorts of civilities, offered them girls, gave them refreshment, and reconducted them to the confines of their territories, proclaiming with great joy: "He is no Jesuit!†
Chpt 16
He is no Jesuit!†
Chpt 16
But, after all, pure nature is good, since these people, instead of feasting upon my flesh, have shown me a thousand civilities, when then I was not a Jesuit.†
Chpt 16
Their features though greatly disfigured, had a slight resemblance to those of Pangloss and the unhappy Jesuit and Westphalian Baron, brother to Miss Cunegonde.†
Chpt 27
This advice was well received, the old woman approved it; they said not a word to his sister; the thing was executed for a little money, and they had the double pleasure of entrapping a Jesuit, and punishing the pride of a German baron.†
Chpt 30

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(1) (Jesuit)
a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
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