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Jac·o·bite       [jak-uh-bahyt] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
2.a member of the Syrian Monophysitic church, which was founded in the 6th century a.d. and was governed by the patriarch of Antioch.

[Origin: 1400–50; (in def. 2) late ME (< MF) < ML Jacōbīta, after Jacobus Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa (d. 578); (in def. 1) cf. James; see ite1]

Jac·o·bit·ic       [jak-uh-bit-ik] Pronunciation Key, Jac·o·bit·i·cal, adjective
Jac·o·bit·ism, noun
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Jac·o·bite       (jāk'ə-bīt')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A supporter of James II of England or of the Stuart pretenders after 1688.


[From Latin Iacōbus, James; see Jacob.]

Jac'o·bit'i·cal (-bĭt'ĭ-kəl) adj., Jac'o·bit·ism (-bī-tĭz'əm) n.
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jacobite

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

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Jacobite

Jac"o*bite\, n. [L. Jacobus James: cf. F. Jacobite. See 2d Jack.]

1. (Eng. Hist.) 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. --Macaulay.

2. (Eccl.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Barad[ae]us, its leader in the sixth century.

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Jacobite

Jac"o*bite\, a. Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

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