Jacobinize

English

Alternative forms

• jacobinize, Jacobinise, jacobinise

Etymology

Jacobin +‎ -ize

Verb

Jacobinize (third-person singular simple present Jacobinizes, present participle Jacobinizing, simple past and past participle Jacobinized)

1. (transitive, sometimes derogatory) To convert to Jacobinism; to radicalize in opposition to the government.
   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks upon his Person:

     Happily, France was not then Jacobinized.

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

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

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