Jacobiticaladj.
/ˌdʒakəˈbɪtᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌdʒækəˈbɪdᵻk(ə)l/ Pertaining to the Jacobites or adherents of the Stuarts; holding Jacobite principles.
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Jacobite1692
Jacobitish1703
Jacobitical1779
1779 H. Swinburne in Crts. Europe close last cent. (1841) I. 255 I drew my wife's attention to this undeserving object of all her Jacobitical adoration [the Young Pretender carried home drunk].
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. v. 66 A few songs, amatory and jacobitical . View more context for this quotation
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 685 Of all the counties of England Lancashire was the most Jacobitical.
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Jacoˈbitically adv. In modern dictionaries.
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1855 in H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang.
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