jacobinise

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A form of jacobinize — To convert to Jacobinism; to radicalize in opposition to the government.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

jacobinise1

verbjacobinise (third-person singular simple present jacobinises, present participle jacobinising, simple past and past participle jacobinised)

present singular third person jacobinises · participle present jacobinising · participle past jacobinised · past jacobinised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Jacobinize.

    It is said now to be the plan of the jacobins 'to affect great zeal for orthodoxy;' but will the bishop, who is strictly orthodox, say that this is likely to jacobinise the world?

    1833, David Bogue, James Bennett, The History of Dissenters: From the Revolution to the Year 1808

Jacobinise2

verbJacobinise (third-person singular simple present Jacobinises, present participle Jacobinising, simple past and past participle Jacobinised)

present singular third person Jacobinises · participle present Jacobinising · participle past Jacobinised · past Jacobinised

  1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of Jacobinize.
    1 more example

    He contended that a Reform of Parliament had long been the pretext of those clubs and societies, but never any thing but a pretext, to cover their treasonable and seditious intentions, and they had found it a successful one, when their views were to destroy men or establish systems: and their wish now clearly was to Jacobinise this country, and introduce the fatal systems which had ruined France.

    1794, Great Britain. Parliament, An Impartial Report of the Debates on the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus, page 56

Origin

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Chicago

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