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Definition of Muzzling
1. muzzle [v] - See also: muzzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muzzling
Literary usage of Muzzling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1898)
"A no less vexed point is the question of local as against general muzzling.
Strange to say, the loudest advocates of universal muzzling are to be found ..."
2. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"Ans.—Muslin de Iain (muzzling Delane, Editor of the Times). When does a man really
ill-use his wife? Ans.—When he plays the Dickens with her. ..."
3. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1906)
"... "—muzzling t/1e Times (?) —Punch's 'joke' and its sequel. Once more I'm in
the ever-juvenile condition of a ..."
4. A Short History of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the by Charles George Walpole (1885)
"THE muzzling OF THE PARLIAMENT. AD 1613. THE momentous revolution in Ulster had
been accomplished through the instrumentality of royal proclamations and ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"criticism or muzzling public opinion. It will not apply to a contract for the
sale of a newspaper, whereby it was agreed that the seller would not edit, ..."