jacobinise

Definitions

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Jacobinize.

UK, alt-of, nonstandard

Equivalents

Examples

“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?”

“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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