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Jacobin(2)(dictionary)
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Jacobin Club(encyclopedia)

Jacobin(2) (iou) and varlet (iou)


Jacobin(2) (iou)



Jacobin noun1 & adjective1. ME.
[Old & mod. French from medieval Latin Jacobinus from ecclesiastical Latin Jacobus: see JACOB, -IN2. Sense 1 from assoc. with the church of S. Jacques in Paris.]
A. noun.
A friar of the order of St Dominic; a Dominican. ME.
Hist. A member of a French political society established in 1789 at the old Dominican convent in Paris to maintain and propagate the principles of democracy and equality. L18.
A sympathizer with the principles of the Jacobins of the French Revolution; a radical or revolutionary in Politics or social organization. L18.
M. J. Lasky The Black Jacobins of Africa.
b. adjective.
Of or pertaining to the Dominican friars. M16.
Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of the French Revolution (Hist.); radical, revolutionary. L18.
E. P. Thompson The Jacobin tradition..of self-Education and of rational criticism of political and religious institutions.
Jaco'binic,
Jaco'binical adjectives of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of the French Revolution; radical: L18.
Jacobinize verb trans. imbue with radical or revolutionary ideas L18.

varlet (iou)



varlet noun. LME.
[Old French, var. of vaslet, vadlet, VALET.]
A man or boy acting as an attendant or servant; a menial, a groom. arch. LME.
b. spec. An attendant on a knight or Other person of military importance. Now Hist. L15.
c. = SERGEANT 7. L16-M17.
The jack in cards. E16-E17.
A person of a mean or unprincipled disposition; a rogue, a rascal. Also used as a (mock) contemptuous form of address. Now arch. or joc. M16.
varletess noun (rare) a female varlet M18.
varletry noun varlets collectively; a number or crowd of attendants or of rogues: E17.
varletto noun (rare, Shakes.) = VARLET 3: only in L16.