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. (Zoöl.) 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.
Jac"o*bin, a. Same as Jacobinic.
Jac"o*bine (?), n. A Jacobin.
{ Jac`o*bin"ic (?), Jac`o*bin"ic*al (?), } a. 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.
Jac"o*bin*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. Jacobinisme.] 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.
Jac"o*bin*ize` (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jacobinized (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Jacobinizing (?).] [Cf. F. Jacobiniser.] To taint with, or convert
to, Jacobinism.
France was not then jacobinized.
Burke.