jacobin

• ⇰ A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the <street>Rue St. Jacques</street>, <city>Paris</city>.
• ⇰ One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the <street>Rue St. Jacques</street>, <city>Paris</city>, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National
• ⇰ 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.

• ⇰ Same as Jacobinic>.