a. [f. JACOBIN sb.1 + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the French Jacobins; ultra-democratic.
1793. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 274/2. Every method … that Jacobinic invention could suggest, or Jacobinic energy employ.
1802. A. Hamilton, Wks. (1886), VII. 325. To rise to power on the ladder of Jacobinic principles.
1881. Athenæum, 20 Aug., 233/2. Throughout the Jacobinic period the notion was widely current that as the people was sovereign, any crowd that might gather in the street … was sovereign.
