jacobin noun³. ['dʒakǝbɪn] L17.
[French jacobine fem. of JACOBIN noun¹.]
1. A breed of fancy pigeon with reversed feathers on the back of the neck like a cowl or hood; a pigeon of this breed. L17.

2. Either of two hummingbirds with neck-feathers resembling a hood, Florisuga mellivora and Melanotrochilus fuscus. M19.

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Jacobin noun² & adjective².E16-M18.
[Old French from medieval Latin Jacobinus alt. of Jacobita JACOBITE noun¹ & adjective¹.]
= JACOBITE noun¹ & adjective¹.

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Jacobin noun¹ & adjective¹. ['dʒakǝbɪn] ME.
[Old & mod. French from medieval Latin Jacobinus from ecclesiastical Latin Jacobus: see JACOB, -IN². Sense 1 from assoc. with the church of S. Jacques in Paris.]
A. noun.
1. A friar of the order of St Dominic; a Dominican. ME.

2. Hist. A member of a French political society established in 1789 at the old Dominican convent in Paris to maintain and propagate the principles of democracy and equality. L18.

3. A sympathizer with the principles of the Jacobins of the French Revolution; a radical or revolutionary in politics or social organization. L18.
■ M. J. Lasky The Black Jacobins of Africa.
b. adjective.
1. Of or pertaining to the Dominican friars. M16.

2. Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of the French Revolution (Hist.); radical, revolutionary. L18.
■ E. P. Thompson The Jacobin tradition..of self-education and of rational criticism of political and religious institutions.

■ Jaco'binic,

■ Jaco'binical adjectives of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of the French Revolution; radical: L18.

■ Jacobinize verb trans. imbue with radical or revolutionary ideas L18.

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