Defn: 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.
JACOBINISM
Jac"o*bin*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. Jacobinisme.]
Defn: 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.
JACOBINIZE
Jac"o*bin*ize`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jacobinized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Jacobinizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. Jacobiniser.]
Defn: To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism.
France was not then jacobinized. Burke.
JACOBITE
Jac"o*bite, n. Etym: [L. Jacobus James: cf. F. Jacobite. See 2d
Jack.]
1. (Eng. Hist.)
Defn: A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary. Macaulay.
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after
Jacob Baradæus, its leader in the sixth century.