Definition of jacobites:
(n) :
(historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. [from 17th c.]
(n) :
(Christianity, dated) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. [from 15th c.]
(n) :
(Christianity, historical) A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.