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FILIBUSTER

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 342 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FILIBUSTER , a name originally given to the
buccaneers
  (q.v.). The
term
  is derived most probably from the Dutch Dry buiter, Ger. Freibeuter, Eng. freebooter, the word changing first into I fribustier, and then into Fr. flibustier, Span. filibusjero. Flibustier has passed into the
French
  language, and filibuster() into the Spanish language, as a general name for a pirate. The
term
  " filibuster " was revived in America to designate those adventurers who, after the termination of the war between
Mexico
  and the United States, organized expeditions within the United States to take
part
  in West Indian and Central American revolutions. From this has sprung the
modern
  use of the word to imply one who engages in private, unauthorized and irregular warfare against any state. In the United States it is colloquially applied to legislators who practise obstruction.


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