list, verb transitive

Origin:
EnglishShow more Special sense of general English list to place on a list, see quotation 1969.
historical
Almost invariably passive. To have one’s name placed on a consolidated list of those who are considered by the government to be a danger to the state, and whose words and opinions may thus not be publicly quoted. Cf. ban verb.
1966 Survey of Race Rel. 1965 (S.A.I.R.R.) 46On 1 September Security Branch policemen detained Mr. I. H— of Johannesburg, a married man with two young sons, whose name had previously been ‘listed’ as a Communist.
1971 Rand Daily Mail 16 Mar. 11Another brother..was detained under the 90-Day Clause in 1964 and listed as a communist the following year.
1987 E. Prov. Herald 7 Nov. 1Mr Coetsee has muzzled the 77-year-old Mr Mbeki, released after 23 years from Robben Island on Thursday, by stressing that he is listed and may not be quoted without permission.
1990 E. Prov. Herald 3 Feb. 11Of those people de-listed today, 65 fall under Section 27 (3) of the Internal Security Act. The other 110 were listed in terms of section 28 of the Act, or Section 8 of the old Internal Security Act of 1950 — namely, office bearers of the ANC, PAC and Communist Party.
Almost invariably passive. To have one’s name placed on a consolidated list of those who are considered by the government to be a danger to the state, and whose words and opinions may thus not be publicly quoted.
Derivatives:
Hence listed  participial adjective, named on the consolidated list, silenced; also transferred sense.
1978 P.-D. Uys in S. Gray Theatre Two (1981) 145International boycott is a listed phrase.
1982 Sunday Times 19 Dec. (Extra) 3Books which have been judged by the Directorate of Publications to be ‘not undesirable’ cannot be published because their authors are listed persons and may not be quoted.
1987 C. Bauer in Weekly Mail 19 June 14Mark Uhlig’s compilation of essays, Apartheid in Crisis, was passed on appeal last week, despite contravening the Internal Security Act by quoting ‘listed persons’ including Oliver Tambo.
1989 C. Bauer in Weekly Mail 26 Jan. 2The aim of the law was not only to stop the voices of subversive individuals but to keep their opinions from being heard...The Internal Security Act covered the reproduction of any opinion, meaning or argument of a listed person.
1989 P. Garson in Weekly Mail 1 Sept. 3Newspapers can be found guilty of quoting listed persons whether they intended to do so or not.
1990 E. Prov. Herald 3 Feb. 11Oliver Tambo can speak again — and be heard in South Africa. So can dozens of other banned or listed people given voice once more by a Government Gazette published in Pretoria today.
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