Jacobite

['dʒækəubait]

Definition

(noun.) a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts.

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Definition

(n.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.

(n.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

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n. an adherent of James II. and his descendants: in Church history a Syrian monophysite named after the 6th-century monk Jacobus Barad鎢s.—adjs. Jac′obite Jacobit′ic -al.—n. Jac′obitism.

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