The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . ed many of the moderate leaders of the revolution, butthemoreviolent members speedily gained the control. Ithad branches in all parts of France, and was all-powerfulin determining the course of government, especially af-ter Robespierre became its leader, supporting him in themeasures which led to the reign of terror. Many of itsmend)ers were executed with iiobespierre in July, 17S)4,and the club was suppressed in November. Itiner-ant revolutionary tribunals, comp
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . ed many of the moderate leaders of the revolution, butthemoreviolent members speedily gained the control. Ithad branches in all parts of France, and was all-powerfulin determining the course of government, especially af-ter Robespierre became its leader, supporting him in themeasures which led to the reign of terror. Many of itsmend)ers were executed with iiobespierre in July, 17S)4,and the club was suppressed in November. Itiner-ant revolutionary tribunals, composed of trustyJacnhiiui, were to move from department to department;and the guillotine was to travel in their train. Macaulay, Barfere. Hence — 3. A violently radical politician; onewho favors extreme measures in behalf of pop-ular government; a radical democrat: former-ly much used, often inaj)propriately, as a termof reproach in English and American are two varieties of Jacobin, the hysterical Jaco-bin and the pedantic JacoHil; we possess both, and bothai-c dangei-ous. M. Arnold, KineteeuthCentiUy, XIX. from 1567), or to his times; also, in occasionaluse, to James II., King of England (1685-88,died 1701): as (with reference to the foi-mer),.hicnbran architecture or literature. Jacobean ar-chitecture dilfered from the rlizabethan chielly in havinga greater admixture of debased Italian forms. The Jacobean and Civil War jwctry is proliHc in loveditties, war songs, jiastorals. allegories, religious \ lieu., 173. Their [Wykehams anil Wayntletesl successors have thesense U) tuni away frnrn Ruskinesque and Jaaibcmn vaga-Tim, and to build in plain English still. ContemiKtrary Rev., LI. 610. Jacobian (ja-kobi-au), o. [< LL. Jacobus,Jacob, James, + Same as Jacobean. Jacobin IHjCon 4. \jt. c] An artificial variety of the domestic-pigeon, wliose neck-feathers form a hood. The jacobin is of continental origin, and has its namefr
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