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单词 gagging
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gaggingadj.

Brit. /ˈɡaɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡæɡɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gag v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < gag v.1 + -ing suffix2.
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.
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1795 T. Beddoes (title) A word in defence of the Bill of Rights, against gagging bills.
1838 Colored 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.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 3/2 The gagging low comedian, (‘low comedy merchant’ is the crushing American phrase).
1926 G. 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.
1978 T. 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.
2000 Sunday 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.

Compounds

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. Compounds 1b.
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1951 in M. K. Gandhi Satyagraha Index 394/1 His surrender to gagging order (1940) is object-lesson in Satyagraha.
1987 B. 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.
1994 Sunday 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.
1998 Cosmopolitan (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.
2002 Guardian 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.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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ˈgagging
ˈgagging n. and adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > other types of acting
puppetry1613
gagging1817
ponging1854
fogging1889
voice acting1928
feeding1929
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1870) 85 Whatever the motives of ministers might have been for the sedition, or as it was then the fashion to call them, the gagging bills.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 126/2 And after a little business between them, all gagging, he says, ‘Slave! get back to the castle!’
1884 M. Beck Erichsen's Sci. & Art Surg. (ed. 8) II. lviii. 640 Efficient gagging is one of the most essential parts of all operations on the tongue.
1892 Athenæum 6 Feb. 173/2 But for his [Canning's] gagging of the European press..some dismal or unseemly things would not have happened.
1893 Times 14 July 9/5 The gagging resolution excluded all debate on the remaining clauses.
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