Jacobin

5 definitions found

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

  Jacobin \Jac"o*bin\ (j[a^]k"[-o]*b[i^]n), n. [F. See 2d {Jack},
     {Jacobite}.]
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     1. (Eccl. Hist.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because,
        before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in
        the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.


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     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.
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     3. (Zool.) 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jacobin \Jac"o*bin\, a.
     Same as {Jacobinic}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blackfriar \Black"fri`ar\, Black friar \Black"
  fri`ar\(bl[a^]k"fr[imac]`[~e]r). (Eccl.)
     A friar of the Dominican order, so named because wearing the
     black mantle of the Dominicans; -- called also {predicant}
     and {preaching friar}; in France, {Jacobin}. Also, sometimes,
     a Benedictine.
  
     Syn: Dominican.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Jacobin
       n : a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign
           of Terror during the French Revolution

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "Jacobin":
     Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist,
     Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Leninist,
     Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead,
     Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee,
     Yankee Doodle, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist,
     bonnet rouge, criminal syndicalist, extreme left-winger, extremist,
     left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mild radical, nihilist,
     parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, pinko, radical, rebel, red,
     revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist,
     revolutionizer, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, subversive,
     syndicalist, terrorist, ultra, ultraist, yippie