Word Meanings - ISRAELITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.

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• JACOBINE
  A Jacobin.
• JACOBINIZE
  To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. France was not then jacobinized. Burke.
• ISRAELITIC; ISRAELITISH
  Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.
• JACOBIN
  A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. 2. One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin
• JACOBEAN; JACOBIAN
  Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.
• JACOBITISM
  The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.
• HEBREW
  1. An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv.
• JACOBUS
  An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.
• JACOBAEAN LILY
  A bulbous plant from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower.
• JACOBITIC; JACOBITICAL
  Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. -- Jac`o*bit"ic*al*ly, adv.
• HEBREW CALENDAR
  = Jewish calendar.
• JACOBINISM
  The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.
• JACOBITE
  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. Macaulay.
• HEBREWESS
  An Israelitish woman.
• JACOBINIC; JACOBINICAL
  Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism. Burke. -- Jac`o*bin"ic*al*ly, adv.
• ISRAELITE
  A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.
• DESCENDANT
  Descendent.
• JACOB
  A Hebrew patriarch , who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven ; -- also called Israel. And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. Gen. xxxii. 9, 10. Thy name shall be called