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Jacobitical

Jacobitical adjective: of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

Adjective

Jacobitical (comparative more Jacobitical, superlative most Jacobitical)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.
    • 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.1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...

Forms of Jacobitical

comparativemore Jacobitical
superlativemost Jacobitical

Origin of Jacobitical

From Jacobite + -ical.

Questions about Jacobitical

What does Jacobitical mean?
Jacobitical means of or pertaining to the Jacobites.
What part of speech is Jacobitical?
Jacobitical is an adjective.

Words near Jacobitical in the dictionary

  1. Jacobite
  2. Jacobitely
  3. Jacobites
  4. Jacobitiana
  5. Jacobitic
  6. Jacobitical
  7. Jacobitically
  8. Jacobitish
  9. Jacobitishly
  10. Jacobitism
  11. Jacobitisms

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