Definition of "Jacobinical"
Jacobinical
adjective
comparative more Jacobinical, superlative most Jacobinical
(historical) Relating to or characteristic of the Jacobins; politically radical.
Quotations
Her late dangers have arisen […] from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations.
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
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.
1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “A Character,” lines 49-52, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), Coleridge: Poetical Works, Oxford University Press, 1912, p. 452
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.
1847 September, Thomas de Quincey, “Schlosser’s Literary History of the Eighteenth Century”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 14, page 576
“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.”
1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 10, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […]