Jacobite /ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/ noun3 •(historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.Among the Jacobites the dismay was great — 1849 •(old-fashioned) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. •(historical) A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist. formsJacobites