Jacobin – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Jacobin
adj.
of the Jacobins of the French Revolution; radical, extreme; of the order of Dominican friars
n.
member of the radical Jacobin party in during the French Revolution; radical, revolutionary, extremist; Dominican friar; type of domestic pigeon
Jacobin
The
Society of the Friends of the Constitution , after 1792 re-named
Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality , commonly known as the
Jacobin Club (
Club des Jacobins) or just collectively
Jacobins (, ), was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the
French Revolution. Initially founded by anti-Royalist deputies from Brittany, the Club grew into a nationwide republican movement, with a membership estimated at a half million or more. The Jacobin Club was heterogeneous and included both prominent parliamentary factions of the early 1790s, the radical
Mountain and the more moderate
Girondists.
Jacobin
Noun
1. a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
(hypernym) terrorist
jacobin
nm.
Jacobin, member of the radical Jacobin party in during the French Revolution; radical, extremist
Jacobin
(n.)
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.
(n.)
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.
(n.)
A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
(a.)
Same as Jacobinic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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