jacobinise

jacobinise is the alternative form of Jacobinize.

Meaning of Jacobinize

Jacobinize (third-person singular simple present Jacobinizes, present participle Jacobinizing, simple past and past participle Jacobinized)

(derogatory, sometimes, transitive) To convert to Jacobinism; to radicalize in opposition to the government.
- Happily, France was not then Jacobinized.1796, Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks upon his Person

Jacobinise (third-person singular simple present Jacobinises, present participle Jacobinising, simple past and past participle Jacobinised)

(UK, nonstandard) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Jacobinize.
- He contended that a Reform of Parliament had long been the pretext of those clubs and societies, but never any thing but a pretext, to cover their treasonable and seditious intentions, and they had found it a successful one, when their views were to destroy men or establish systems: and their wish...1794, Great Britain. Parliament, An Impartial Report of the Debates on the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus, page 56

third-person singular present	jacobinises
present participle	jacobinising
past participle	jacobinised
past	jacobinised
third-person singular present	Jacobinises
present participle	Jacobinising
past participle	Jacobinised
past	Jacobinised

From Jacobin + -ise.

What is jacobinise the alternative form of?: Jacobinise is the alternative form of Jacobinize.
What part of speech is jacobinise?: Jacobinise is a verb.
What is the past tense of jacobinise?: The past tense of jacobinise is jacobinised.

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