Jacobinical
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Jacobinic + -al or Jacobin + -ical.
Adjective
[edit]Jacobinical (comparative more Jacobinical, superlative most Jacobinical)
- (historical) Synonym of Jacobin, of, related to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of France.
- 1793, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three memorials on French affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, 1797, [1]
- Her late dangers have arisen […] from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations.
- 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “A Character,” lines 49-52, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), Coleridge: Poetical Works, Oxford University Press, 1912, p. 452,[2]
- And though he never left in lurch
- His King, his country, or his church,
- ’Twas but to humour his own cynical
- Contempt of doctrines Jacobinical.
- 1847 September, Thomas de Quincey, “Schlosser’s Literary History of the Eighteenth Century”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 14, page 576:
- She is always ready for jacobinical scoffs at a man for being a lord, if he happens to fail; she is always ready for toadying a lord, if he happens to make a hit.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 249:
- “And there must be no letter-scribbling to your cousin Hortense: no intercourse whatever. I do not approve of the principles of the family; they are Jacobinical.”
- 1793, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three memorials on French affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, 1797, [1]
- (politics, by extension) Synonym of radical.