Word Meanings - ISRAELITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.
Related words: (words related to ISRAELITE)
- 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