Definition of Jacobuses

1. Noun. (plural of Jacobus) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jacobuses

1. jacobus [n] - See also: jacobus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacobuses

jacktars
jackwood
jacky
jacobaean
jacobaean lily
jacobin
jacobinize
jacobinized
jacobinizes
jacobinizing
jacobins
jacobite
jacobsite
jacobsites
jacobus
jacobuses (current term)
jaconet
jaconets
jacquard
jacquards
jacqueminot
jacqueminots
jacquerie
jacqueries
jacquesdietrichite
jactancy
jactation
jactations
jactitate
jactitation

Literary usage of Jacobuses

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

1. English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"... in my own knowledge; and their ready payment was all double jacobuses, English twenty-[five] shilling pieces. I have seen more there, in one day, ..."

2. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1893)
"1 barrel muscovado sugar, £3, 9. 900 ounces of Plate at 3s. 9(A, £303, 15. 180 guineas, £211, 3. 1 double guinea, £2, 14. 23 jacobuses, £34, 10. ..."

3. Social England Illustrated: A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts by Andrew Lang (1903)
"... payment was all double jacobuses, English twenty-[five] shilling pieces. I have seen more there, in one day, than ever I did in London at any time. ..."

4. Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with His Observations on by John Lauder Fountainhall, Donald Crawford (1900)
"In my voyage thorow Flanders for Holland, I spent 2 jacobuses, so that I have no mo but 6 and a Carolus, so that I have no mo but 12; the Carolus at ..."

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