JACOBIN
\d͡ʒˈakəbˌɪn], \dʒˈakəbˌɪn], \dʒ_ˈa_k_ə_b_ˌɪ_n]\
Definitions of JACOBIN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Same as Jacobinic.
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A Dominican friar; - so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Same as Jacobinic.
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A Dominican friar; - so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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One of an order of monks, so named from their orig. establishment in the Rue St. Jacques (St James's Street), Paris; one of a society of revolutionists in France, so called from their meeting in a Jacobin convent: a demagogue: a hooded pigeon.
By Daniel Lyons
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Jacobinical.
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One of an order of monks; one of a revolutionary club in Paris; a violent radical; demagogue.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A monk of the Order of St. Dominic; one of a revolutionary faction which took a prominent lead during the French revolution, and so called from their place of meeting being the monastery of the Jacobin monks; a turbulent demagogue; a hooded pigeon.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
