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Jacobian

Jacobean \Ja*co"be*an\ (?; 277), Jacobian \Ja*co"bi*an\, a. 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.

Usage examples of "jacobian".

It is proved by general arguments based on a particular constant of the motion, termed the Jacobian integral.

And babies born in New Amsterdam were Knickerbockers, and babies born in Boston were Yankees, and babies born in Charleston were Jacobians or Cavaliers or some such name.