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adjourn, v.|əˈdʒɜːn|
Forms: 4 aiorne, 4–6 aiourne, 5–6 ajourn(e, 6 adiorn(e, 6– adjourn.
[a. OFr. ajorne-r, ajurne-r, ajourne-r:—late L. adiurnā-re, adjurnā-re, adjornā-re ‘diem dicere alicui,’ Ducange, f. ad to + late L. jurnus, jornus (cf. It. giorno, Pr. jorn, Fr. jour) a day:—cl. L. diurn-us daily, lasting for a day: see journal. The occasional MFr. ad- for a-, rejected in mod.Fr., has been retained in Eng. since 6.]
†1. trans. To appoint (one) a day for his appearance; to cite or summon for a particular day; to remand (one) for justice to another day or occasion. Obs.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 309 He aiorned þam to relie in þe North at Carlele. c1360Chaucer A.B.C. 158 Ladi, vn to þat court þou me aiourne þat cleped is þi bench. 1530Palsgr. 419/2, I adjourne, I monisshe or warne one to apere afore a judge at a daye certayne: Je semons. I am adjourned by the bysshops offycers. 1600Holland Livy xlii. xxii. 1128 The Pretour..adjourned [jussit] the defendant to make appearance in the court upon the Ides of March. 1660Howell, To Adjourn, or Cite to Apeer, citare, appellare.
2. To defer or put off (a time, action, or state), prop. to another day; also indefinitely; to postpone, defer, put off.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy v. xxxvi, For they them caste the time not aiourne, For daye and nighte with her they soiourne. 1559Myrroure for Mag., Suffolk xxii. 4 Fro place to place to adiourne it divers times. 1589Warner Albion's Eng. vi. xxxi. (1612) 152 My Deitie adiornde therefore, in humaine forme I wowe. 1600Chapman Iliad xvi. 74 No more let them ajourn Our sweet home-turning. 1725Pope Odyssey xii. 33 This day adjourn your cares. 1847Bushnell Chr. Nurt. iv. (1861) 102 Every law of physiology must be adjourned. 1861Emerson Cond. Life ii. 50, I adjourn what I have to say on this topic.
3. To adjourn (a meeting): To put off or defer its further proceedings to another day; to discontinue or dissolve it, in order to reconstitute it at another time or place.
1494Fabyan an. 1433 (R.) Parlyament..was aiourned onto Seynt Edwardes day. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 232 'Tis a needfull fitnesse That we adiourne this Court till further day. 1741Middleton Cicero (1742) II. vi. 6 The Consul..immediately adjourned the Senate into the Capitol. 1880W. MacCormac Antis. Surgery 71 The meeting..was adjourned for a fortnight.
†4. refl. (as in 5). Obs.
a1626Bacon Adv. to Villiers (R.) By [the king] alone are they prorogued and dissolved; but each house may adjourn itself. 1641in Rushworth Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 496 The Lords and Commons may Adjourn themselves to any place. 1669–70Marvell Corr. 134 Wks. 1875 II. 300 The House..then adjournd themselves till Thursday.
5. intr. (from refl.) Of persons met for business: To suspend proceedings and disperse for a time agreed upon, or sine die, that is, without specifying any day for reassembling. Also, to separate in order to meet at another place; hence famil. to remove the place of meeting, without the intervention of any time save that occupied by the change of place.
1641in Rushworth Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 496 Touching the Houses Adjourning to any other place at their pleasure. 1718Pope Iliad xix. 289 The speedy council at his word adjourn'd. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. xlviii. 25 From the church the people adjourned to the hippodrome. c1815Jane Austen Northang. Abb. (1833) I. xv. 94 They thence adjourned to eat ice at a pastry-cook's. |