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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

Etymologies

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Jacobite +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • Richard Tresham, a gentleman of a high Northumbrian family, deeply engaged in the service of Charles Edward during his short invasion, and though holding a commission in the Portuguese service, still an object of suspicion to the British government, on account of his well-known courage and Jacobitical principles.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • Jacobitical principles; and the next week, perhaps, spent among outlawed smugglers, or Highland banditti.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • But if you have any Jacobitical partialities, as is naturally to be supposed, you will do well to suppress them in his presence, as well as the least tendency to the highflying or Tory principles; for he holds both in utter detestation.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Her hours, then, were not spent in solitude, but in listening to the addresses of some desperate agent of Jacobitical treason, who was a secret resident within the mansion of her uncle!

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Resolving, therefore, that it was expedient some one of their number should sacrifice the scruples of Jacobitical loyalty to the good of the community, the Northumbrian country gentlemen imposed the duty on Inglewood, who, being very inert in most of his feelings and sentiments, might, they thought, comply with any political creed without much repugnance.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • 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.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • The Captain was at the head of a most heinous Jacobitical uprising.

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

  • I determined, therefore, to be done at once with Mr. Stewart and the whole Jacobitical side of my business, and to profit for that purpose by the guidance of the porter at my side.

    David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

  • Resolving, therefore, that it was expedient some one of their number should sacrifice the scruples of Jacobitical loyalty to the good of the community, the Northumbrian country gentlemen imposed the duty on Inglewood, who, being very inert in most of his feelings and sentiments, might, they thought, comply with any political creed without much repugnance.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • But if you have any Jacobitical partialities, as is naturally to be supposed, you will do well to suppress them in his presence, as well as the least tendency to the highflying or Tory principles; for he holds both in utter detestation.

    Rob Roy 1887

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