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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.

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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century.
  3. a. Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.
  4. n. a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts
  5. 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 Baradæus, its leader in the sixth century. Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.
  6. A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after hisabdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in1688 in favor of William and Mary. Macaulay.
  7. j:44/n:56 n. a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts