(in politics). Wasting time in the legislature, and obstructing progress.
1853. When I saw my friend filibustering, as I thought, against the United States,… I did not know what to think.—Mr. Brown of Miss., House of Repr., Jan. 3: Cong. Globe, p. 194.
1858. [They] consumed the day by filibustering, and now they hold their hands up in holy horror because the Private Calendar is to be overslaughed.—Mr. McQueen of S. Car., the same, May 21: id., p. 2293.
1861. This “fillibustering” [in Congress] was resorted to at every attempt to consider the [Mr. McIntyre’s] appointment.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 171.
1882. The objectionable practices of “filibustering” and “stonewalling.”—Sir M. H. Beach, Standard, March 24. (N.E.D.)
1885. Ex-Confederates Filibuster to Prevent a vote on the Bill.—Heading in the Boston Journal, Feb. 20. (N.E.D.)
1888. Mr. Bland did not oppose these measures in a filibustering spirit.—Missouri Republican, Feb. 22 (Farmer).
1889. A humiliating “treaty” with a single determined “filibuster.”—Boston Journal, Jan. 14. (N.E.D.)
