Jacobinic

Variant of Jacobin

Jacobin definition

Jaco·bin (jak′ə bin)

noun

  1. a French Dominican friar: the Dominicans were established in a convent at the Church of St. Jacques in Paris
  2. any member of a society of radical democrats in France during the Revolution of 1789: their meetings were held in the Jacobin friars' convent
  3. an extreme political radical

Etymology: MFr < ML Jacobinus < LL(Ec) Jacobus: see jack

adjective

of the Jacobins or their policies
also Jacobinic Jac′o·bin′ic or Jacobinical Jac′o·bin′i·cal

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