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Definition of Jacobins

Jacobins
Dominican Do*min"i*can, 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.
Jacobin
Jacobin Jac"o*bin, a. Same as Jacobinic.
Jacobin
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.
Jacobin
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.

Meaning of Jacobins from wikipedia

- the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality (Société des Jacobins, amis de la liberté et de l'égalité) after 1792 and commonly known as the Jacobin Club...
- the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins. The Dominicans in France were called Jacobins (Latin: Jacobus, corresponds to Jacques in French...
- The Jacobin is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding that originated in Asia. Jacobins, along with other varieties of...
- the French Revolution than the French Jacobins. The conservative religious journal First Things criticized Jacobin's claim to represent Toussaint Louverture...
- belonging to the Dominican Order. In France Dominicans were known as "Jacobins". The three subspecies with their breeding ranges are: C. j. serratus (Sparrman...
- directions. This feature has come to be known as Le Palmier des Jacobins, the palm tree of the Jacobins. Between 1275 and 1315, the height of the choir was increased...
- convince him that Bohuš, far from being a Jacobin, supported the Girondins and had been condemned to death by the Jacobins. She now reveals that Bohuš is in prison...
- The jacobins are two species of hummingbirds in the genus Florisuga. The genus Florisuga was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien...
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is a 1938 book by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, and is a history of the...
- Look up Jacobin or jacobin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Jacobins were a political club during the French Revolution. Jacobin may also refer...