a. [f. JACOBITE sb.4 + -ICAL.] Pertaining to the Jacobites or adherents of the Stuarts; holding Jacobite principles.

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1779.  H. Swinburne, in Crts. Europe close last cent. (1841), I. 255. I drew my wife’s attention to this undeserving object of all her Jacobitical adoration [the Young Pretender carried home drunk].

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1814.  Scott, Wav., v. A few songs, amatory and Jacobitical.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxi. IV. 685. Of all the counties of England Lancashire was the most Jacobitical.

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  Hence Jacobitically adv.

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1855.  in Hyde Clarke, Eng. Dict. Also in mod. Dicts.

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