Jacobian

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jacobean \Ja*co"be*an\ (?; 277), Jacobian \Ja*co"bi*an\, a.
     [From L. Jacobus James. See 2d {Jack}.]
     Of or pertaining to James the First, of England, or of his
     reign or times; especially, pertaining to a style of
     architecture and decoration popular in the time of James I.;
     as, Jacobean writers. "A Jacobean table." --C. L. Eastlake.


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