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septembrize

verb

  1. To motivate the common people to overthrow a ruling class by force, and to execute its leaders.

    transitive

    […] 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.

Where it comes from

From French septembriser, a reference to the September massacres of Paris in 1797 during the French Revolution.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry septembrize (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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