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Jacobean. World English Historical Dictionary

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Jacobean. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Jacobean a. (sb.) Also -æan. [f. late and mod.L. Jacōbæus (f. Jacōbus: see prec.).]

1   1.  Of or pertaining to the reign or times of James I. of England; spec. in Arch., a term for the style that prevailed in England in the early part of the 17th cent., consisting of very late Gothic with a large admixture of Palladian features; also transf. in other arts, as Engraving, etc.

2 1844.  F. A. Paley, Church Restorers, 171. I have seen Jacobean doors added to ancient churches.

3 1867.  F. G. Lee, 1636 & 1866, in Ess. Reunion, 128. Most of the Jacobean divines, apparently, could not look beyond the confines of the English nation.

4 1874.  Parker, Goth. Archit., I. ii. 20. What are called Jacobean Gothic buildings of the time of James I. are often very good examples of the Perpendicular style.

5 1880.  Warren, Book-plates, iii. 22. The Jacobean style was most prevalent on our book-plates about 1730.

6   2.  Of or pertaining to the apostle St. James the Less or the Epistle written by him.

7 1883.  Pulpit Treas., June, 108. The Jacobean definition of religion must be recovered [Jas. i. 27].

8 1898.  W. S. Lilly, in 19th Cent., Sept., 516. A doctrine in which the Pauline and Jacobean pronouncements are unobtrusively blended.

9   b.  Jacobean (or Jacobæa) lily, a bulbous plant (Sprekelia formosissima, N.O. Amaryllidaceæ), a native of Mexico, named after St. James.

10 1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 305. Jacobæa Lily, Amaryllis.

11 1770–4.  A. Hunter, Georg. Ess. (1803), III. 125. I have no where seen it more manifest than in the Jacobean Lily.

12 1846.  J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), I. 119. In the Jacobæan lily, Linnæus noticed a drop of transparent liquid protruding every morning from the stigma.

13   B.  sb. A statesman or writer of the time of James I.

14 1885.  Athenæum, 21 Nov., 661/2. Milton’s chance of leadership would have been slight if … the age needed a prosaic reaction from the extravagances of the Jacobeans.

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