Dictionary

Jacobite en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/

Etymology

From Latin Jācōbus (“James”) + -ite, equivalent to Jacob + -ite.

Meanings

1. (historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
   • Among the Jacobites the dismay was great 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
   • In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners. 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63:
2. (dated) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite.
3. (historical) A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
   • Dawson rightly points […] especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions. 2022, Jerome McGann, Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement, →ISBN, page 189:

Forms

Deriveds

Jacobitely · Jacobitical · Jacobitish · Jacobitiana · Jacobitic

Relateds

Jacobitism

Synonyms

Jacobin (Syrian Christianity)

Translations (19)

cs jakobita (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · pl jakobita (Syriac Orthodox Christian) · fi jakobiitti (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · cy Jacobit (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · hy հակոբիկ (Syriac Orthodox Christian) · pl jakobita (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · de Jakobitin (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · es jacobita (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · gd Seumasach (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · it giacobita (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · cy Iacobit (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · de Jakobite (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · el Ιακωβίτης (Syriac Orthodox Christian) · it giacobita (Syriac Orthodox Christian) · es jacobita (Syriac Orthodox Christian) · mr जॅकोबाइट (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · la Iacobita (Syriac Orthodox Christian) · fr jacobite (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings) · ga Seacaibíteach (supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings)