JACOBITE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin Jacobita, from Jacobus Baradaeus (Jacob Baradai) died 578 Syrian monk Date: 15th century a member of any of various Monophysite Eastern churches, II. noun Etymology: Jacobus (James II) Date: 1689 a partisan of James II of England or of the Stuarts after the revolution of 1688, Jacobitical adjective Jacobitism noun