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- noun Plural form of
Jacobite .
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Monophysites are sometimes called Jacobites here as in Syria; but the old national name Copt (Gr. Aigyptios) has become the regular one for their Church as well as for their nation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The Monophysites gained in strength under Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, and became known as Jacobites, and exist to this day in Abyssinia and America.
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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The superstition of the Jacobites is more abject, their fasts more rigid, 131 their intestine divisions are more numerous, and their doctors (as far as I can measure the degrees of nonsense) are more remote from the precincts of reason.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Jacobites is more concisely exposed in the Preliminary Dissertation of the second volume of Assemannus.] 215 Eutych.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Stuarts were called Jacobites, and among this number was the Earl of
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It is full of people whom the Mohammedans call Jacobites, Syrians, Greeks, Georgians and Franks, and of people of all tongues.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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This contains the Ordo Communis only of the Jacobites, that is their Mass of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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+ Thirdly, the Jacobites of Syria, who bear the same relation to the ancient Syrians as the Copts to the ancient Egyptians, and are called Jacobites after Jacob Barradai (Baradæus), who preserved the episcopal succession when it was threatened by Justinian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Eutyches (see MONOPHYSITES AND MONOPHYSITISM), the schismatic branch of this rite are called Jacobites, although they call themselves
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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On the extreme of Toryism was a third party of zealots, called the Jacobites, who aimed to bring the Stuarts back to the throne, and who for fifty years filled Britain with plots and rebellion.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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