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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jacobin \Jac"o*bin\, a. Same as {Jacobinic}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jacobin \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Black friar \Black" fri`ar\ (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order -- called also {predicant} and {preaching friar}; in France, {Jacobin}. Also sometimes a Benedictine. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Jacobin n : a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution [syn: {Jacobin}]
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