Definition of Caucussing

1. caucus [v] - See also: caucus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caucussing

catworm
catworms
caucasoid
caucasoid race
cauchie
caucus
caucus race
caucus races
caucused
caucuses
caucusgoer
caucusgoers
caucusing
caucussed
caucusses
caucussing (current term)
cauda
cauda equina
cauda fasciae dentatae
cauda helicis
cauda nuclei caudati
cauda pancreatis
cauda striati
caudad
caudal
caudal anaesthesia
caudal anesthesia

Literary usage of Caucussing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Republican Party and Its Leaders: A History of the Party from Its by Thomas Wallace Knox (1892)
"Republican Convention of 1884—Preliminary caucussing and Canvassing—The Candidates for the Nomination—Elaine the general Favorite—How the Balloting went ..."

2. The American Register, Or, Summary Review of History, Politics, and Literature by Robert Walsh (1817)
"Mr. Chairman, the source of all these evils is the practice of legislative caucussing; this practice must cease, and with it the evils will vanish—no ..."

3. A History of Texas and Texans by Francis White Johnson, Ernest William Winkler (1914)
"A convention has been called which will afford a sovereign remedy to the vile machinations of a caucussing, intriguing, and corrupt council. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"in caucussing, determining who shall be the speakers and what subjects they shall introduce. That is an advance toward civilization. ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"... question," he says, "out of politics, out of the realm of caucussing and plotting, and let the Church settle it as it would any other religious issue. ..."

6. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence by Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854)
"I have not observed whether, in your code, you have provided against caucussing judicial decisions, and for requiring judges to give their opinions seriatim ..."

7. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1902)
"Instead of acting as becomes the councillors and guardians of a free people, you resolve yourselves into intriguing, caucussing parties; pass resolutions ..."

8. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1884)
"caucussing ant wire-pulling may—indeed must—bring about a very decide* unity of action, but such unity is never of the healthy municipa kind. ..."

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