Jacobinise

English

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of Jacobinize
    • 1794, Great Britain. Parliament, An Impartial Report of the Debates on the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus, page 56:
      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.
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