<P> According to the Global Terrorism Database by the University of Maryland, College Park, more than 61,000 incidents of non-state terrorism, resulting in at least 140,000 deaths, have been recorded from 2000 to 2014 . </P> <P> The Latin verb terrere means: to frighten . The English word' terror', just like the French terreur, derives from that Latin word and means from of old: fright, alarm, anguish, (mortal) fear, panic . </P> <P> Oxford English Dictionary reportedly states that the word' terrorist' (French: terroriste) was invented in the year 1794, during the French Revolution . The first meaning of the word' terrorist' was then: adherent or supporter of the Jacobins . Apparent from the context given in an article in the Guardian, the indication' Jacobins' in that Oxford definition bears on the group around Maximilien Robespierre, also called' Montagnards', that after 1794 were held responsible by some commentators for the repressive and violent government over France between June 1793 and July 1794, a period analogously labeled' Reign of Terror' by commentators . The given definition in Oxford Dictionary shows, the term' terrorist' in its first use was meant as abusive term for someone's political or historical ideas or allegiances, not as description of his personal actions . </P> <P> In December 1795, Edmund Burke used the word "Terrorists" in a description of the new French government called' Directory': "At length, after a terrible struggle, the (Directory) Troops prevailed over the Citizens (...) To secure them further, they have a strong corps of irregulars, ready armed . Thousands of those Hell - hounds called Terrorists, whom they had shut up in Prison on their last Revolution, as the Satellites of Tyranny, are let loose on the people ." Clearly, in this case, Burke used' Terrorists' as disparaging labeling of armed troops hired by a government he loathes . </P>

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