n. [ F. See 2d Jack, Jacobite. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Eccl. Hist.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Jacobinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Jacobin.

{ } 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. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. Jacobinisme. ] The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Jacobinized p. pr. & vb. n. Jacobinizing ] [ Cf. F. Jacobiniser. ] To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

France was not then jacobinized. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]