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English
Etymology
From Jacobinic + -al or Jacobin + -ical.
Adjective
Jacobinical (comparative more Jacobinical, superlative most Jacobinical)
- (historical) Relating to or characteristic of the Jacobins; politically radical.
- 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,
- 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,
- 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.
1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 10, in Shirley. A Tale. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., , →OCLC:“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.”