Jacobite

n. [N. Lat. Jacobus, James; Gr. 'Ιάκω-βος, Heb. Ja’akōb, literally, holding the heel, sup-planter.]

1. (Eng. Hist.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after he abdicated the throne, and of his descendants; an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Christians in Syria and Mesopotamia, who hold that Jesus Christ had but one nature;—so named from Jacob Baradzi, their distinguished leader in the sixth century.