ə noun
1.
(in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
2.
an extreme radical, especially in politics.
3.
a Dominican friar.
4.
(lowercase) one of a fancy breed of domestic pigeons having neck feathers that hang over the head like a hood.
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Jacobin (ˈdʒækəbɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a member of the most radical club founded during the French Revolution, which overthrew the Girondists in 1793 and, led by Robespierre, instituted the Reign of Terror |
| 2. | a leftist or extreme political radical |
| 3. | a French Dominican friar |
| 4. | (sometimes not capital) a variety of fancy pigeon with a hood of feathers swept up over and around the head |
| —adj | |
| 5. | of, characteristic of, or relating to the Jacobins or their policies |
| [C14: from Old French, from Medieval Latin Jacōbīnus, from Late Latin Jacōbus James; applied to the Dominicans, from the proximity of the church of St Jacques (St James) to their first convent in Paris; the political club originally met in the convent in 1789] | |
| Jaco'binic | |
| —adj | |
| Jaco'binical | |
| —adj | |
| Jaco'binically | |
| —adv | |
| 'Jacobinism | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
Jacobin
early 14c., of the order of Dominican friars whose order built its first convent near the church of Saint-Jacques in Paris. The Revolutionary extremists took up quarters there 1789. Used generically of radicals and reformers since 1793.
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