Jacobin

['dʒækəubin]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

克雷格編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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 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.

(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.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Dominican, predicant, blackfriar, preaching friar.[2]. Anarchist, turbulent demagogue.

整理:泰勒

解釋/意思:

n. a French Dominican monk so named from their original establishment being that of St Jacques Paris: one of a society of revolutionists in France so called from their meeting in the hall of the Jacobin convent: a demagogue: a hooded pigeon.—adjs. Jacobin′ic -al.—v.t. Jac′obinise.—n. Jac′obinism the principles of the Jacobins or French revolutionists.

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