Definition of "Jacobite"

Jacobite

/ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/

noun
plural Jacobites
1. (historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
  Quotations
  Among the Jacobites the dismay was great
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
2. (Christianity, dated) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite.
3. (Christianity, historical) A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
  Quotations
  Dawson rightly points […] especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions.
  2022, Jerome McGann, Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement, page 189