jacobin

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  1. 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. 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.
  4. Same as Jacobinic.

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  1. a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

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  • At Phillips's it was read aloud by Pratt to a circle of literary guests, who were unanimous in their applause:—The Anti-jacobin , as well as the Gentleman's Magazine , has already blown the trump of fame for you. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I.
  • An old jacobin, one of Bonaparte's condemned spirits, was employed to speak to the judges, to induce them to condemn Moreau to death. —  Ten Years' Exile
  • As to my principles, they were, at all times, decidedly anti-jacobin and anti-revolutionary, and my American scheme is a proof of this. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • France's commitment to jacobin values has long prevented ethnicity from being acknowledged as a relevant category of public life and as a potential source of inequality, and the ban on ethnic statistics denies us even a basic knowledge of the socio-economic condition of minority groups.,, and openDemocracy. net under a Creative Commons licence. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • The Anti-jacobin Review is all very well, and not a bit worse than the Quarterly, and at least less harmless. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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