Crossword-Solution: JACOBIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jacobin | n. | A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. |
| Jacobin | 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. |
| Jacobin | 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. |
| Jacobin | a. | Same as Jacobinic. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “JACOBIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| COWLED pigeon | 1 answer |
| DOMINICAN friar | 1 answer |
| FRENCH political club member | 1 answer |
| French political club | 1 answer |
| French radical | 1 answer |
| political club French | 1 answer |
| variety of fancy pigeon | 1 answer |
| FRENCH Revolution party member | 2 answers |
| French Revolution radical | 2 answers |
| French revolutionary | 2 answers |
| FRENCH Revolution party | 3 answers |
| sympathiser | 4 answers |
| Friar | 12 answers |
| Pigeon | 39 answers |
| Revolutionary? | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with JACOBIN (5)
After a silence of a few moments, during which they all looked towards him without disturbing his outward attention from the Jacobin editor, they resumed their conversation.
Seductive Jacobin figments, which he had often refuted at the Speculative, swam up in his mind and startled him as with voices: and he seemed to himself to walk accompanied by an almost tangible presence of new beliefs and duties.
But what reward had it for the lonely, embittered, stricken man whose genius and courage had gained for it the great Northwest territory? What reward had the Republic for him who sat brooding in his house above the Falls--for Citizen General Clark? In those days you were not a Federalist or a Democrat, you were an Aristocrat or a Jacobin.
The boldest among these were known as the Jacobins, after the old Jacobin cloister in which they held their political meetings.
But if we were a Republic—you know I am an old Jacobin, sans-culotte and terrorist—if this were a real Republic with the Convention sitting and a Committee of Public Safety attending to national business, you would all get your heads cut off.
Quotes with JACOBIN (2)
Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility
The door was flung open. Maurice Duplay filled it; energetic master, shirt- sleeves rolled up. He threw out his arms, the good Jacobin Duplay, and formed a sentence totally original, something which had never been uttered in the history of the world: “Camille, you have a son, and your wife is very well, and is asking you to be at home, right now.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1984–2009).