Fear for no peers! Free English Dictionary Definition of Jacobin
- [n.] - A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the
French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St.
Jacques, Paris. - [n.] - One of a society of violent agitators
in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret
meetings in the 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. - [n.] - 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. - [a.] - Same
as Jacobinic.