a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = prec.
1793. Mad. D’Arblay, Lett. to Dr. Burney, 19 Feb. Perhaps all may be Jacobinical malignity.
1821–30. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., i. (1874), 59. Trousers or gaiters … he described as Jacobinical.
1871. Morley, Crit. Misc., I. 62. Reason like Condorcet’s, streaked with jacobinical fibre.
Hence Jacobinically adv.
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 752. Patting them on their heads (rather jacobinically greasy for our taste).
1887. Daily News, 28 June, 5/1. The present House of Commons has no ‘mandate,’ as Lord Salisbury Jacobinically calls it, to coerce Ireland.
