Jacobins

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

  Dominican \Do*min"i*can\, prop. n. (Eccl. Hist.)
     One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de
     Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in
     England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States
     was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is
     always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also


     {preaching friars}, {friars preachers}, {black friars} (from
     their black cloak), {brothers of St. Mary}, and in France,
     {Jacobins}.
     [1913 Webster]