Jacobinize

English Alternative forms en jacobinize Jacobinise jacobinise Etymology From en Jacobin ize. Verb en transitive sometimes derogatory To convert to Jacobinism; to radicalize in opposition to the government. en 1796 Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks upon his Person Edmund Burke Happily, France was not then Jacobinized. en 1845 The Edinburgh Review - Volume 47; Volume 81 Thomas Arnold 211 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. en 1998 Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800 Hilda Kean If labourers were barred from pleasures they would Jacobinize the whole country, he declared. Derived terms en Jacobinization en eponyms