Word Meanings - JACOBINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A Jacobin.
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A Jacobin. - JACOBINIZE
To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. France was not then jacobinized. Burke. - JACOBIN
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 - JACOBINISM
The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp. - JACOBINIC; JACOBINICAL
Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism. Burke. -- Jac`o*bin"ic*al*ly, adv.