单词 | Jacobite |
释义 | Jacobite —Jacobitic /jak'euh bit"ik/, Jacobitical, adj. —Jacobitism, n. /jak"euh buyt'/, n. 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. [1400-50; (in def. 2) late ME ( < MF) < ML Jacobita, after Jacobus Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa (d. 578); (in def. 1) cf. JAMES; see ITE1] |
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