Definition of jacob

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"Jacob (n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel..

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Stag-horn Coral :: Staggerwort (n.) A kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea).
Nonjuror :: Nonjuror (n.) One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite..
Dominican :: Dominican (n.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins..
Jacobitical :: Jacobitical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism.
Jacobuses :: Jacobuses (pl. ) of Jacobu.
Polemonium :: Polemonium (n.) A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian..
Shiloh :: Shiloh (n.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as the Messiah, or as the city Shiloh, or as Rest..
Jacobinize :: "Jacobinize (v. t.) To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism..
Jacobite :: "Jacobite (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..
Black Friar :: Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine..
Jacobinism :: Jacobinism (n.) The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.
Jacobinized :: Jacobinized (imp. & p. p.) of Jacobiniz.
Broadpiece :: Broadpiece (n.) An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus..
Compounder :: Compounder (n.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm..
Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob..
Jacobin :: "Jacobin (n.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris..
Sans-culottic :: Sans-culottic (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical..
Jacobaean Lily :: "Jacobaean lily () A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower..
Sans-culotte :: Sans-culotte (n.) Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin..
Jacobian :: "Jacobian (a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England..
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