Definition of James i

1. Noun. The first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625).

Exact synonyms: James, King James, King James I
Group relationships: Stuart
Generic synonyms: King Of England, King Of Great Britain

Lexicographical Neighbors of James I

James Edmund Scripps
James Edward Meade
James Fenimore Cooper
James Francis Thorpe
James Franck
James Garfield
James George Frazer
James Grover Thurber
James Hargreaves
James Harold Doolittle
James Harvey Robinson
James Henry Leigh Hunt
James Hogg
James Howard Meredith
James Hutton
James I
James II
James IV
James Ives
James Jerome Hill
James John Corbett
James Joseph Tunney
James Joyce
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk
James Langston Hughes
James Leonard Farmer
James Lind
James Madison
James Maitland Stewart

Literary usage of James i

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

1. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"Abbey at the Coronation of K. james i. With the Coronation of K. Charles the First in ... The Secret History of K. james i. and K. Charles I. 1692,12mo. 3s. ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"Collins; Nichols's Progresses of james i ; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1603-30; Hoare's Hist, of South Wiltshire, vol. ii. pt. ip 143 ; Aubrey's Nat. ..."

3. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"I. FROM THE ACCESSION OF james i. TO THE PASSING OK THE PETITION OF RIGHT. james i. came to the English throne at a critical period of our JAMES i. history. ..."

4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"James. I have not disturbed them in their public worships. Just. Pears. ... James. I meddle not with the states; I speak against them that are hirelings, ..."

5. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1921)
"JAMES. I loved him, too; but he was an obstinate old man. Sometimes I think it was the Dutch ... JAMES. I will make you say it! You do love me. CATHERINE. ..."

6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authorsby Charles Wells Moulton by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"131 Buchanan, George I, 316 Burns, Robert IV, 224 Douglas, Gawin I, 214 Drummond, William II, 101 Dunbar, William I, 224 Henryson, Robert 1208 james i of ..."

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