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adj
Of or related to the Jacobin Club in France.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, not-comparable
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adj
Of or related to the radical left in other contexts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, not-comparable
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adj
Synonym of Dominican, of or related to the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, not-comparable
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: Dominican, of or related to the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter
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adj
Synonym of Jacobite, of or related to the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: Jacobite, of or related to the Syriac Orthodox Church
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noun
Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: Dominican
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noun
A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A sympathizer or supposed sympathizer with the French political club or its aims of democracy and social equality.
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Usage: broadly, historical
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noun
A leftist radical in other contexts.
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Usage: broadly
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noun
Synonym of Jacobite, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: Jacobite
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of jacobin, various birds.
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Usage: alt-of
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Jacobin.
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Usage: alt-of
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noun
A domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) with reversed feathers on its neck.
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noun
Any hummingbird of the genus Florisuga.
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noun
A kind of thick French soup with cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: terrorist
History
From Middle English Jacobin, from Old French jacobin, from Latin Jācōbīnus, from Latin Jācōbus (“James, Jacob, etc.”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Ya'akóv), q.v. In reference to the Dominican Order, from the proximity of their 1218 chapel and chapter house in Paris to the city's Porte Saint-Jacques, whose road formed an extension of the Way of St. James running to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In reference to the Jacobin Club, from its 1789 founding at the former Dominican convent. In reference to the Syrian church, from Jacob bar Addai, bishop of Edessa during the mid-6th century.
From Jacobin, q.v. In reference to birds, via French jacobine, from a supposed resemblance to the Dominicans' formerly standard hood or coloring. In reference to soup, via French soupe à la Jacobine.
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