jacobinize

present singular third person jacobinizes · participle present jacobinizing · participle past jacobinized · past jacobinized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Jacobinize.

   Great efforts will be made to jacobinize Massachusetts, and to elect Gerry, though many think Mr. A. will be the jacobin candidate.

   1854, Fisher Ames, Seth Amers, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames

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   They assume an attitude towards the government of distrust, if not of hostility, and exert their influence to jacobinize the church instead of destroying her, as the revolution would do if it could.

   1884, Orestes Augustus Brownson, The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Civilization, page 189

   Such unwarrantable steps could not make proselytes of the Catholic military ; it might, in time, make them indifferent to all forms of worship, and thereby jacobinize them upon the French scale, and, perhaps, in the hour of danger, induce them to forget their duty and their loyalty, in order to be revenged of their persecutors.

   1895, John Healy, Maynooth College: Its Centenary History, page 694

present singular third person Jacobinizes · participle present Jacobinizing · participle past Jacobinized · past Jacobinized · alternative jacobinize · alternative Jacobinise · alternative jacobinise

1. derogatorysometimestransitiveTo convert to Jacobinism; to radicalize in opposition to the government.

   Happily, France was not then Jacobinized.

   1796, Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks upon his Person

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   We are threatened by a most unprincipled system of agitation—the Tories actually doing their best to Jacobinize the poor, in the hope of turning an outbreak against the whig government to their own advantage.

   1845, Thomas Arnold, The Edinburgh Review - Volume 47; Volume 81, page 211

   If labourers were barred from pleasures they would Jacobinize the whole country, he declared.

   1998, Hilda Kean, Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800