early 14c., in reference to an order of Dominican friars, from Old French Jacobin (13c.) "Dominican friar" (also, in the Middle East, "a Copt"); so called because the order built its first convent near the church of Saint-Jacques in Paris (the masc. proper name Jacques is from Late Latin Iacobus; see Jacob). The Revolutionary extremists made their club headquarters there October 1789 and supported Robespierre during the Terror. It was suppressed in November 1794. In English, used generically of radicals and allegedly radical reformers since 1793. Related: Jacobinism.
实用例句
1. In 1589 Henry was himself assassinated by a fanatical Jacobin friar.
1589年被雅各宾修道院一个狂热的修士刺死.
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2. At that time, the ruling Jacobin faction leader Robespierre strongly supports this request.
