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a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel. And Jacob said . . . with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. Gen. xxxii. 9, 10. Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. Gen. xxxii. 28. Jacob's ladder. (a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the gen…

sissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. [Written also Jacobean.]

to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.

olent 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.

A Jacobin.

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.

The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. France was not then jacobinized. Burke.

One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradæus, its leader in the sixth century.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. -- Jac`o*bit"ic*al*ly, adv.

The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

tion an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the…

An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs.

cing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.

A bailiff or steward; an agent. [Obs.] Jacobs.

ee to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.

A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob.