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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 342 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FILIBUSTER , a name originally given to the See also:

buccaneers (q.v.). The See also: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 See also:French See also:language, and filibuster() into the See also:Spanish language, as a See also:general name for a pirate. The term " filibuster " was revived in See also:America to designate those adventurers who, after the termination of the See also:war between See also:Mexico and the See also:United States, organized expeditions within the United States to take See also:part in See also:West See also:Indian and Central See also:American revolutions. From this has sprung the See also:modern use of the word to imply one who engages in private, unauthorized and irregular warfare against any See also:state. In the United States it is colloquially applied to legislators who practise obstruction.

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