1. A list of persons who have incurred suspicion, censure or punishment; cf. BLACK a. 11.
1692. Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. Pop., x. Wks. (1851), 228. If ever Charles his Posterity recover the Crown … you are like to be put in the Black List.
1774. Mrs. A. Adams, Lett. (1848), 36. Mr. Boylston, and Mr. Gill, the printer, with his family, are held upon the black list, it is said.
2. fig. A list of bad cases.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxi. (1856), 267. Eight cases of scorbutic gums were already upon my black-list.
Hence Black-list v., to enter in a black list.
1718. Hickes & Nelson, J. Kettlewell, III. § 10. 212. This Method of Black-Listing had its original from a certain notion.
Mod. Newspaper. S. was expelled and black-listed last night.
