Jacobinical

English

Etymology

From Jacobinic +‎ -al or Jacobin +‎ -ical.

Adjective

Jacobinical (comparative more Jacobinical, superlative most Jacobinical)

1. (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,

     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.

   • 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.”

2. (politics, by extension) Synonym of radical.

Derived terms

• Jacobinically