2. Noun. A gag motion or reflex. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gagging
1. gag [v] - See also: gag
Medical Definition of Gagging
1. Contraction of the constrictor muscle of the pharynx elicited by stimulation of sensory receptors on the soft palate, by psychic stimuli, or systemically by drugs. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gagging
Literary usage of Gagging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis (1896)
"He had no hesitation then, in spite of their gagging Bill, to tell the ]i 'ople
to get rifles and pikes with all speed, because, in the first place, ..."
2. Therapeutics of the Respiratory System, Cough and Coryza, Acute and Chronic by Marvin W. Van Denburg (1915)
"gagging Dry Cough: Dry cough; worse from gagging and vomiting; ... gagging and
belching, even vomiting; with pain in chest and constant dry painful cough; ..."
3. History of the United States from the Foundation of Virginia to the by Percy Greg (1887)
"Effect of the gagging Resolutions—Abolitionist Petitions—Adams as a Free-soil
... THE ' gagging Resolutions '1 shared the fate of all such excesses of party ..."
4. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... versatility—Production of " HMS Pinafore "—Cast—Gilbert as stage-manager—Clever
draughtsman—Rehearsals—" gagging " prohibited—Sullivan at rehearsals. ..."
5. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"Slave-gagging.—Freedmen the Harshest Masters.—-Salutations. — Disobliging People.
— Hair, Dress, Tattooing. — Naked People.—Natural Stomachers. ..."
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