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verb
To confront a Member of Parliament with his former opinions as recorded in his speeches in Hansard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, UK, dated
Topics: government, politics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Hansard + -ize. The term was popularised and possibly coined by Thomas Henry Huxley. According to Sydney D. Bailey, the term had fallen out of use by the 1950s.
