(n.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.
(n.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Supporting Pakistan or the Windies at cricket is no more evidence that someone has failed to integrate than wearing a kilt to a wedding is proof of Jacobite sympathies.
(2) History echoes through this part of Scotland, where Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobite standard of rebellion, and many other battles and feuds have been fought since.
(3) Its six permanent galleries explore different themes, including clan warfare, the Jacobite uprisings and the Highland Clearances: a seventh gallery hosts a changing exhibition.
(4) Adult £26, kids £19.75 Jacobite Steam Train, Fort William, the Highlands Photograph: Alamy Trips don't come more "classic" than a West Coast Railways Jacobite steam-train ride.
(5) He believed it united citizens on either side of the border from the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 until the dawn of Thatcherism and that the cornerstone of the union and its main pillars have either crumbled or become rotten.
(6) He had a huge collection of books about Scotland, concentrating on its history and reflecting his special interest in the Jacobite rebellion in the 18th century and the splits in the church in the 19th.
(7) Not that protest songs are the exclusive domain of the left: the folk tradition has encompassed Jacobite rants and classics such as the royalist civil war song, Dominion of the Sword , while contemporary singers such as Morrissey and Gary Numan have pitched in for the political right.
(8) The Scotland I grew up in largely identified itself in terms of its military history in service of the British empire – the charge of the Scottish Greys at Waterloo, the Thin Red Line at Balaclava in the Crimean War – on the sporting field and by a sort of faux Jacobitism with a royalist hue to it.
(9) Supporting Pakistan or the Windies at cricket is no more evidence that someone has failed to integrate than wearing a kilt to a wedding is proof of Jacobite sympathies.
(10) It’s not a romantic romp in the heather or a doomed Jacobite jolly.
(11) Alan Breck (Stewart), described by Balfour as "a condemned rebel, and a deserter, and a man of the French king's", represents the proud spirit of the Highlands after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, fiery, reckless, romantic and doomed, with a brilliant line in memorable dialogue.
(12) Along with the famous Fairy Flag, the castle collection includes impressive paintings, Jacobite relics and a wealth of clan history.
(13) The Jacobite Express used in the Harry Potter films chugs between Mallaig and Fort William twice a day, charging across the Glenfinnan Viaduct with its spectacular view down Loch Shiel.
(14) In the Collected Works of Stevenson , it boasts one of the longest and most elaborate subtitles in English literature: "Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751; How he was Cast Away; His Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; His Acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other Notorious Highland Jacobites; with All that He Suffered at the Hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, Falsely So-Called.
Syrian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac.
(n.) A native of Syria.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(2) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(3) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(4) Chromosome aberrations were scored in BHK21 C13 Syrian hamster fibroblasts, exposed to 60Co gamma-rays, 250 kV X-rays, 15 MeV neutrons or neutrons of mean energy 2.1 MeV produced from the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction.
(5) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(6) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(7) Malignant melanoma of the conjunctival region was induced in the golden Syrian hamster.
(8) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
(9) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
(10) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(11) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(12) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(13) Experiments were performed in vitro on strips of diaphragmatic muscle obtained from 21 Syrian hamsters.
(14) But Syrians have borne the brunt of the hatred because of the unfortunate way they became associated with Morsi in the dying days of his presidency.
(15) On the other hand, Tris-CP and Tris-BP were both equally effective in transforming Syrian hamster embryo cells in vitro.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(17) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(18) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
(19) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(20) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.