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 Middle English (<
Middle French) <
Medieval Latin Jacōbīta, after
Jacobus Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa (died 578);
(in def 1) cf.
James; see
-ite1 Related forms Jac·o·bit·ism, noun
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