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  • noun A former English gold coin from the Jacobite period.

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Examples

  • Yet the dislocation doesn't come with the observation itself, as Jacobus is quick to add.

    Introduction 2008

  • Even with this limited material comfort, they fared better than their cousin Jacobus Lubbe Andriesz, who died in 1829, a 73-year-old bachelor with only 11 old silver buttons and two silver shoe buckles to his name. 26

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • James Edward made only a half-hearted attempt to regain the throne after the death of Queen Anne, but "Jacobitism" from James in Latin, Jacobus would haunt the Hanoverian dynasty that succeeded her.

    Servants To Masters Allan Mallinson 2011

  • Since the late twelfth century the Cathedral of Santiago in Compostela has possessed a manuscript entitled Jacobus and also called Liber Sancti Jacobi or Codex Calixtinus.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • Ital., (tom.iii. p. 486 — 85 See the vth crusade, and the siege of Damietta, in Jacobus a Vitriaco, (l.iii. p. 1125 — 1149, in the Gesta Dei of Bongarsius,) an eye — witness,

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Indeed, one gay young dog called Jacobus was proceeding from jokes linguistic to jokes practical.

    Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • THE friends of James were called Jacobites, from Jacobus which is Latin for James.

    An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920

  • The Jaboites (derived from Jacobus which is Latin for followers of

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • What passed between them was not learned by the rest of the world until long after; in fact, at that time the world was not interested in Jacobus Laningdale.

    THE UNPARALLELED INVASION 2010

  • China had laughed at war, and war she was getting, but it was ultra-modern war, twentieth century war, the war of the scientist and the laboratory, the war of Jacobus Laningdale.

    THE UNPARALLELED INVASION 2010

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