Obs. Also 6 -yn, 7 -ine. [= OF. Jacobin, ad. med.L. Jacōbīnus, f. Jacōbus: see JACOBITE1.]

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  a.  sb. A member of a Monophysite sect in Syria, Mesopotamia, etc.; = JACOBITE sb.1 b. adj. Of or pertaining to this sect.

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1517.  Torkington, Pilgr. (1884), 24. Ther com to vs Jacobyns and other feynyd Cristen Peple.

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1653.  Baxter, Chr. Concord, 40. Of all which (with the other smaller parties, as the Copties, the Jacobines, &c.) it is hard to say which are the more ignorant.

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1727.  A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., I. iv. 35. Its present Possessors are Nestorian and Jacobin Monks.

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1768.  Hume, Ess. & Treat. (1809), II. 430. The Jacobins denied the immaculate conception.

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