septembrize
See also: Septembrize
English
editEtymology
editFrom French septembriser, a reference to the September massacres of Paris in 1797 during the French Revolution.
Verb
editseptembrize (third-person singular simple present septembrizes, present participle septembrizing, simple past and past participle septembrized)
- (transitive) To motivate the common people to overthrow a ruling class by force, and to execute its leaders.
- 1817, Jeremy Bentham, Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism:
- […] and no sooner had they septembrized France, than they would cross over, and, with the assistance of the travelling Orator, and the Spenceans, septembrize us in the same way.