Jacobite

Noun

1. A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. [from 17th c.]
   • Among the Jacobites the dismay was great - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
   • In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners. - 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013,...
2. A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. [from 15th c.]
3. A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
   • 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...