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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.

A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

rs preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

o down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides. Anti-Jacobin. Patent insides or outside, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent…

French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.

Mountain (La montagne) (French Hist.), a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in the National Convention, who occupied the highest rows of seats.

Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.

pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical. Carlyle.

Whispering. [R.] "The soft susurrant sigh." Poetry of Anti- Jacobin.