a. and sb. [ANTI- 3.] A. adj. Opposed to the Jacobins, one of the revolutionary parties in France in 1789; hence, opposed to the French Revolution, and to those who sympathized with it, or with democratic principles, who were nicknamed Jacobins by the partisans of Mr. Pitt’s administration. B. sb. One opposed to the Jacobins, etc.; also name of a weekly paper started in 1797 in hostility to the French Revolution and democratic principles.
1809. Hist. Eur., in Ann. Reg., 93/1. The loudest of those anti-jacobin declaimers.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 331. How my friend the cobbler came to be … so violent an Anti-jacobin.
1834. Macaulay, Pitt, in Biogr. (1860), 201. Eager and intolerant Anti-jacobins.
1867. Cornh. Mag., Jan., 63. The neglect into which the wit and wisdom of the Anti-Jacobin have fallen.
