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▪ I. Jacobite, n.1 and a.1|ˈdʒækəbaɪt|
[ad. med.L. Jacōbīta, f. Jacōbus: see Jacob and -ite.]
A member of a Monophysite sect taking its name from Jacobus Baradæus, of Edessa, who revived the Eutychian heresy in the 6th cent. Also attrib., or as adj.
c1400Mandeville (1839) x. 121 There ben othere that ben clept Surienes..thei maken here confessioun right as the Iacobytes don. c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 30/2 Iacobyten named also of on ketter Iacob... These be kytte and chrystened with a byrnynge yren. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. xviii. 194 The Jacobite Christians..have a Patriarch of their own. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 21 The Iacobites..mark their children with a hot Iron with the signe of the Cross, alluding to the words of Saint Iohn, He shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire. 1867E. B. Elliott Mem. Ld. Haddo xv. (1868) 252 Egyptian Christians of the Eutychian or Jacobite persuasion.
▪ II. † ˈJacobite, n.2 Obs.
[ad. med.L. Jacōbīta, f. Jacōbus: see -ite.]
= Jacobin n.1 1.
c1550Bale K. Johan (Camden) 18 Jacobytes, Mynors, Whyght Carmes, and Augustynis. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 174 In a Monasterie of the Iacobits at Paris..the Epitaph, of Humbert is thus conceiued. 1818A. Ranken Hist. France IV. iv. 317 They granted..to the Dominicans or Jacobites certain rights.
▪ III. † ˈJacobite, n.3 Obs.
[f. Jacob + -ite.]
A descendant of Jacob, an Israelite; also applied to the 17th c. Puritan refugees. (See N. & Q. 9th ser. III. 323.)
1658Sir F. Gorges' Amer. painted to the Life i. xxiii. 46 Jaccobbites. Ibid. iii. ii. 200 Hearing that prophane Esau had mustered up all the bands..to come against his brother Jacob, these wandering race of Jacobites deemed it now high time to implore the Lord.
▪ IV. Jacobite, n.4 and a.2|ˈdʒækəbaɪt|
[f. L. Jacōb-us James (see Jacob) + -ite.]
A. n. An adherent of James II of England after his abdication, or of his son the Pretender; a partisan or supporter of the Stuarts after the Revolution of 1688.
1689E. Bohun (title) The Doctrine of Passive Obedience, and Non-Resistance, no way concerned in the Controversies now depending between the Williamites, and the Jacobites. 1690Luttrell Brief Rel. Apr. (1857) II. 36 A private form of prayers is printed here, used amongst the Jacobites, for King James in his afflictions. 1736Bolingbroke Patriot. (1749) 169 Every Jacobite at this time..is a rebel to the constitution under which he is born. 1814Scott Wav. xxix, The sanguine Jacobites, during the eventful years 1745–6, kept up the spirits of their party by the rumour of descents from France.
B. adj.
†1. Pertaining to James I of England; in Jacobite piece = Jacobus. Obs.
1611in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 147 There is speech of finding some little remedy, by raising gold,..the angel and sovereign to eleven shillings, and the Jacobite piece to two and twenty.
2. a. Of or pertaining to the adherents of James II and his family: see A.
1692Song in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 320 At Kingsland near the City There met a Jacobite crew. 1697J. Dennis (title) A Plot and no Plot, or Jacobite Credulity; a Comedy. 1788H. Walpole in Walpoliana xix. 10 Atterbury was nothing more or less than a Jacobite priest. 1892Guardian 10 Feb. 184/2 On Monday, the Marquis de Ruvigny placed on the spikes of the gate at Westminster Abbey a wreath with the following inscription ‘In memory of the martyrdom of Mary..from the Legitimist Jacobite League’.
b. Of glass or pottery: bearing inscriptions and emblems which indicate Jacobite sympathies.
1936Burlington Mag. Oct. p. xxiii/1 There are also many specimens of engraved glasses including Jacobite specimens with their symbolic references. Ibid. 175/1 A series of Jacobite glasses. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 117/2 Jacobite pottery. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 150 Jacobite glasses, propaganda glasses bearing emblems and mottoes of a cryptic character associated with the Jacobite cause. 1970Canad. Antiques Collector Oct. 29/2 The emblems to be found on these Jacobite glasses include a rose..and the Latin word ‘Fiat’.
Hence ˈJacobitely adv.
1706Hearne Collect. 7 May (O.H.S.) I. 241 He was..look'd upon as Jacobitely inclin'd.
▪ V. Jacobite, n.5|ˈdʒækəbaɪt|
[f. as Jacobite n.4]
An admirer of Henry James (1843–1916). Cf. Jacobean a. 3.
1909Beerbohm Around Theatres (1953) II. 541 There, in those six last words, is quintessence of Mr. James; and the sound of them sent innumerable little vibrations through the heart of every good Jacobite in the audience. 1961L. Auchincloss Reflections of Jacobite p. vii, I have called myself a Jacobite because so much of my lifetime's reading has been over the shoulder of Henry James. |