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adj. - Of or relating to the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

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Usage examples (38)
  • Wordsworth's muse was essentially liberal -- one may say, Jacobinical.
  • I do not approve of the principles of the family: they are Jacobinical. '
  • The Jacobinical and precipitous assaults of the Non-intrusionists upon the rights of property are summarily put down.
  • In La Vendée, one of the departments of France, an insurrection broke out against the Jacobinical government, in 1793.
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