Jacobitical

American  

[ja-kuhb-i-tik-uhl] / ˌdʒæ kəbˈɪ tɪk əl /

adjective

1. History/Historical. of or relating to the Jacobites or their beliefs.

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Example Sentences

I used to enter, with some little feeling of Jacobitical enthusiasm, the house of the Marquise D. which he had inhabited.

From Project Gutenberg

Questionable, indeed, it is, when we consider the exclusive character of the association in question, the high social position of its members, and their avowed Jacobitical tenets, if even the influence of James Ross, powerful though it was, would alone have secured for Ramsay admission.

From Project Gutenberg

Macdonald was author of a large quantity of poetry, embracing the descriptive, in which his reading made him largely a borrower; the lyrical in which he excelled; the satirical, in which he was personal and licentious; and the Jacobitical, in which he issued forth treason of the most pestilential character.

From Project Gutenberg

The poet wrote the Chevalier’s Lament to please the jacobitical taste of his friend; and the musician gave him advice in farming which he neglected to follow:—“Farmer Attention,” says Cleghorn, “is a good farmer everywhere.”

From Project Gutenberg

Accompanied by this charming dame, he visited an old lady, Mrs. Bruce, of Clackmannan, who, in the belief that she had the blood of the royal Bruce in her veins, received the poet with something of princely state, and, half in jest, conferred the honour of knighthood upon him, with her ancestor’s sword, saying, in true Jacobitical mood, that she had a better right to do that than some folk had!

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