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Definition of Jacobean

1. Adjective. Of or relating to James I or his reign or times. "Jacobean writers"

2. Noun. Any distinguished personage during the reign of James I.

Definition of Jacobean

1. a. Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England.

Definition of Jacobean

1. Adjective. Relating to a Jacob or James. ¹

2. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic of the reign of James VI and I (of Scotland and England). ¹

3. Noun. A partisan of James I and of the House of Stuart. ¹

4. Adjective. (alternative spelling of Jacobean) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacobean

Jacky Hangman Jacky Hangmen Jacky Howe Jacky Howes Jaclyn Jacob Jacob's coat Jacob's ladder Jacob's ladders Jacob's rod

Jacob's staff Jacob Epstein Jacob Harmensen Jacobaeus operation Jacobean (current term) Jacobean lilies Jacobean lily Jacobeans Jacobethan Jacobi

Jacobi symbol Jacobi symbols Jacobian Jacobians Jacobin Jacobine Jacobines Jacobinic Jacobinical

Literary usage of Jacobean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"CHAPTER IV Jacobean PROSE — SECULAR Bacon — His life — His writings — His style — His use of figures — His rhetorical quality—Jonson's prose — The ..."

2. A Guide to the Study of Book-plates (ex-libris) by , John Byrne Leicester Warren (1900)
"THE Jacobean STYLE. THE artistic style of English ex-libris decoration, which we propose to distinguish as Jacobean, is first found (so far as our present ..."

3. How to Know Period Styles in Furniture: A Brief History of Furniture from by William Lowing Kimerly (1913)
"The Jacobean was contemporaneous with the Flemish style and was ... Elizabethan) Jacobean and Flemish styles can be used together in perfect harmony in ..."

4. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student by Banister Fletcher (1905)
"The Jacobean style was a development of the Elizabethan, gradually diverging from Gothic picturesqueness as classic literature and models became better ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"Dürer, that continued in use until the sixteenth century, when they gave way to the Jacobean, the popularity of which continued until 1745, ..."

6. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"CHAPTER VII THE Jacobean POETS THE authors who will ... and in calling what precedes it Elizabethan and what follows it Jacobean. The death of the Queen was ..."

7. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1907)
"Gordon, Chippendale, by Crel/on ; Sir Ernest Gordon of Park, Bart., and Park, 1778, Jacobean, two states of the same plate \ (Gordon) anon., Jacobean ..."

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