v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] trans. To render Jacobin, to imbue with revolutionary or ultra-democratic ideas. Hence Jacobinization, the action of Jacobinizing.
1793. Burke, Rem. Policy Allies, Wks. VII. 183. I think no Country can be aggrandized whilst France is jacobinised.
1798. W. Taylor, in Monthly Review, XXVI. 548. Surely this author will not admit that a domestic Jacobinization was the only defence against foreign subjection.
1836. Arnold, Lett., in Stanley, Life (1844), II. viii. 61. A most unprincipled system of agitation,—the Tories actually doing their best to Jacobinize the poor, in the hope of turning an outbreak against the Whig government to their own advantage.
