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Jacobin Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Jacobin? [n] a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution Synonyms \| Synonyms for Jacobin: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Jacobin: anarch \| anarchist \| anarcho-syndicalist \| Bolshevik \| Bolshevist \| Bolshie \| bonnet rouge \| Carbonarist \| Carbonaro \| Castroist \| Castroite \| Charley \| Communist \| Cong \| criminal syndicalist \| extreme left-winger \| extremist \| Fenian \| Guevarist \| left-wing extremist \| Leninist \| lunatic fringe \| Maoist \| Marxist \| Mau-Mau \| mild radical \| nihilist \| parlor Bolshevik \| parlor pink \| pink \| pinko \| Puritan \| radical \| rebel \| Red \| Red Republican \| revolutionary \| revolutionary junta \| revolutioner \| revolutionist \| revolutionizer \| Roundhead \| sans-culotte \| sans-culottist \| Sinn Feiner \| subversive \| syndicalist \| terrorist \| Trotskyist \| Trotskyite \| ultra \| ultraist \| VC \| Vietcong \| Wobbly \| Yankee \| Yankee Doodle \| yippie See Also \| terrorist Jacobin In Webster's Dictionary \Jac"obin\, n. [F. See 2d {Jack}, {Jacobite}.] 1. (Eccl. Hist.) 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 convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue. 3. (Zo["o]l.) A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short. \Jac"obin\, a. Same as {Jacobinic}.

Jacobin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jacobin?

[n] a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

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Jacobin In Webster's Dictionary

\Jac"o*bin\, n. [F. See 2d {Jack}, {Jacobite}.]
1. (Eccl. Hist.) 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 convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and
   concerted measures to control the proceedings of the
   National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing
   government; a turbulent demagogue.

3. (Zo["o]l.) A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the
   neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail
   are long, and the beak moderately short.


\Jac"o*bin\, a.
Same as {Jacobinic}.

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