Hansardize

English

Etymology

From Hansard +‎ -ize. The term was popularised and possibly coined by Thomas Henry Huxley.[1] According to Sydney D. Bailey, the term had fallen out of use by the 1950s.[2]

Verb

Hansardize (third-person singular simple present Hansardizes, present participle Hansardizing, simple past and past participle Hansardized)

  1. (UK, Commonwealth, politics, dated) To confront a Member of Parliament with his former opinions as recorded in his speeches in Hansard.

References

  1. ^ “The Great Dictionary”, in The Speaker‎[1], 11 June 1898, pages 738-9: “Messrs. Hansard have given their name to the official report of the debates in Parliament, and through it to hansardize and hansardization. These last two terms seem to have been coined by Professor Huxley.”
  2. ^ Sydney D. Bailey (1953), “Parliament's Printers”, in The Contemporary Review‎[2], number 1047, page 179: “For a time there was a verb, to hansardize, to confront a Member of Parliament with his former utterances in order to prove that he once expressed a different opinion. It is a pity that this excellent word has passed into disuse.”

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