— 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 ( Jacobita, after Jacobus Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa (d. 578); (in def. 1) cf. JAMES; see ITE 1 ]