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sederunt Sc.|sɪˈdɪərənt|
[a. L. sēdērunt ‘there were sitting’ (sc. the following persons), 3rd pers. pl. pf. ind. of sedēre to sit, used subst.]
‖1. In minutes of deliberative bodies, used (in its Latin sense) to introduce the list of persons present at a meeting. Obs.
The word occurs at least as early as the 15th c. in minutes that are written in Latin, or in which the names or titles of the persons are latinized.
1673in Fasti Aberd. (1854) 339 Sederunt, the earle Marischall, the lord bishop, Mr. Alexander Ross [and others].
2. A sitting of a deliberative or judicial body; now chiefly of an ecclesiastical assembly. book of sederunt: a minute-book.
1628Chas. I in Acts of Sederunt (1790) 39 If you find the said warrant extant in your buikis of sederunt. 1652Sess. Rec. of Canisbay 29 Mar. in Stat. Acc. Scot. XV. 25 No session holden, by reasone the Inglishe being quartered in the bounds, the congregation was few in number, and ther was not a sederunt of elders. 1714Lond. Gaz. No. 5262/1 His Majesty was Pleased to Order that One of the said Instruments be Transmitted to the Court of Session, to be Recorded in the Books of Sederunt. 1800A Carlyle Autobiog. (1860) 108 After many very late sederunts of the Synod, and at last a hearing of the General Assembly, the affair was dismissed. 1856Aiton Clerical Econ. 78 The late hours, the long sederunts, and the heats and the colds.
†b. The time or occasion of such a sitting or meeting. Obs. rare—1.
1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 236 After the Debate, the Judges..delayed the Determination thereof till next Sederunt.
c. Act of Sederunt: see quot. 1875.
1672Sir G. Mackenzie Pleadings Pref. A 2 At the first institution of our Senat, It was appointed by an Act of Sederunt, That [etc.]. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 123 Act of Sederunt, in Scotch Law, an ordinance for regulating the forms of procedure before the Court of Session, passed by the judges in virtue of a power conferred by an Act of the Scotch Parliament, 1540 c. 93.
d. transf. A sitting for discussion or talk. Also, more loosely, a sitting (of a person) at some occupation, over the bottle, or the like.
1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Sutherl. I. 21 [She] dusted away..sundry furrows of snuff which had gradually accumulated in her lap in the course of a long morning's sederunt. 1829Health & Longev. 143 He was not a drunkard, but at times he took a very long sederunt at his bottle. 1866Gladstone in Morley Life v. xiii. (1903) II. 211 Morning sederunt with Lord Russell and Brand on reform and other matters. 1867Macfarlane Mem. T. Archer vi. 135 Information he had accumulated by his sederunts in the Museum Library.
†3. ? A person's record of attendance at a sitting.
1632Acts of Sederunt (1790) 45 Quatsomever Lord shall admit any informer or solliciter within his house..shall loss and forfatt his sederunt of that day, to accress to the remanent Lords, observers of this statute.
4. The list of persons present at a ‘sederunt’ or sitting. ¶ Also pl. the persons named on such a list.
1701Acts of Sederunt (1790) 221 The Lords..Do therefore ordain the Lords present at their sitting down in the morning, after the ringing of the Session-bell, to be marked in the sederunt. 1822Galt Provost xliii, Mr. Peevie, one of the very sickerest of all the former sederunts, came to me next morning. 1866Leeds Mercury 4 Apr., He then constituted the meeting by calling over the roll, answered to his own name, and faithfully took down the sederunt. 1910U.F. Ch. Miss. Record Jan. 22/2 The council met with a sederunt of four.
5. attrib.: sederunt book, a volume containing the record of a sederunt, a minute-book; † sederunt-day, a day appointed for a sederunt.
1619Reg. Privy Council Scot. XII. 8 The Lordis of Sessioun and Exchekker, whose names ar insert in the *Sederunt bookis of Sessioun and Exchekquer. 1770D. Herd Let. in Herd's Songs (1904) 45 A copy of the Cape [club] sederunt book. 1810Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1849) I. 170 Walked to Pittenweem, and got the sederunt-book on Dr. Reid's affairs.
1677Acts of Sederunt (1790) 137 Unless the petition be given in within the space of two *sederunt days, after pronounceing of the decreet. 1753Scots Mag. July 365/1 The first sederunt-day of November. 1754J. Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 480 A sentence of the inner-house, either not reclaimed against within six sederunt-days after its date,..or adhered to upon a reclaiming bill [etc.]. |