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gagging, a.
Brit. |ˈgagɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈgægɪŋ|
[‹ gag v.1 + -ing suffix2.]
1. That gags (in various senses of the verb); spec. designating any of various (esp. legal) mechanisms intended to restrict open debate or to prevent the disclosure of information.
1795T. Beddoes (title) A word in defence of the Bill of Rights, against gagging bills. 1838Colored Amer. 1 Dec. 161/2 If they still pursue the insane course pointed out by Pickens, McDuffie, and Preston, in the South,—the stifling, gagging, lynching, petition suppressing, speech denying system, then will they be rendered thereby, traitors against their own capabilities. 1893Westm. Gaz. 15 May 3/2 The gagging low comedian, (‘low comedy merchant’ is the crushing American phrase). 1926G. M. Trevelyan Hist. Eng. ii. iii. 172 Radicals appealed to the letter and the spirit of ‘Magna Charta’ against gagging acts, packed juries and restrictions of the franchise. 1978T. Harrison in Sel. Poems (ed. 2) 59 The finest vantage point in all of Prague's This gagging gargoyle's with the stone-locked lute. 2000Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 10 Sept. So aghast were some Lib Dems at the willingness of their own chief whip, Ian Smith, to go along with the Executive's gagging writ that they threatened to vote with the SNP.
Special uses. gagging order n. chiefly Law a directive forbidding public disclosure of information on a particular matter, esp. one enforceable by law (cf. gag order n. at gag n.1 Additions); (spec. in the United Kingdom) = public interest immunity certificate n. at public adj. and n. Special uses 2
1951in M. K. Gandhi Satyagraha (Index) 394/1 His surrender to *gagging order (1940) is object-lesson in Satyagraha. 1987B. Van Niekerk Cloistered Virtue iii. 121 In February 1978 it was reported..that the U.S. Supreme Court had refused to grant certiorari and thus to rule on two such cases of gagging orders that had been imposed on the attorneys of accused in criminal cases. 1994Sunday Times 6 Mar. i. 13/7 Heseltine alone could tell Scott: ‘Up with this I will not put.’ This is what he said when he read part of a submission asking him to sign a public interest immunity certificate, a ‘gagging order’, restricting evidence in the Matrix Churchill trial. 1998Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Nov. 70/1 Such offers are normally made on condition the victim signs a ‘gagging order’ not to talk to the press. 2002Guardian 31 Jan. i. 6/1 The court of appeal yesterday lifted a gagging order..in a judgement that opens the way for the media to report details of many family court hearings held in private. |