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sessional, a.|ˈsɛʃənəl|
[f. session n. + -al1.]
Pertaining to a session or sessions. a. Belonging or relating to, supplied by, a kirk-session.
1715in J. F. S. Gordon Bk. Chron. Keith (1880) 89 The Session..thought fit to give them a sessional admonition to make conscience of ordering their affairs [etc.]. 1811T. Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1849) I. 218, I gave her sessional assistance. 1849W. Hanna Mem. Chalmers II. 307 The number of sessional poor (that is, of poor who had been on the session's roll of one or other of the three parishes..) was ninety-eight. 1885Edgar Old Ch. Life Scot. 240 The Lord's table was not to be approached without a sessional pass.
b. Pertaining to the session of a law-court. So petty sessional, quarter sessional, pertaining to petty sessions, quarter sessions.
1832Act 2 & 3 Will. IV, c. 64 §9 Such other places..as are locally situated within..the said sessional divisions. 1837Lockhart Scott (1839) VI. 326 Scott being then on one of his short Sessional visits to Abbotsford. 1846S. G. Osborne Let. 28 May (1891) I. 6 The sitting on the quarter sessional bench. 1883Fortn. Rev. May 693 To establish petty sessional districts.
c. Belonging, relating, or restricted to a session of a House of Parliament; recurring every session. Also Canad., sessional indemnity, the remuneration received by a member of a legislative assembly.
1834A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under 7 Administr. (1837) III. 104 The sessional stages. 1839Times 7 Sept. 4/1 He will make a sessional motion in the House of Commons. 1844May Parlt. 132 Sessional orders. At the commencement of each session both houses agree to certain orders and resolutions, which, from being constantly renewed from year to year, are evidently not intended to endure beyond the existing session. 1886C. E. Pascoe Lond. of To-day vii. (ed. 3) 81 The Sessional dinners of each House. 1900E. B. Osborn Greater Canada 105 The average partisan gets to Ottawa for the sake of his sessional indemnity and what he can make by means of his position. 1963Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 July 8/2 Increases in sessional indemnities and expenses that the Quebec Legislature has just approved put it in a class by itself.
d. Pertaining to, or lasting a session (sense 3 d) in an educational institution.
1965Listener 28 Jan. 137/2 Each student has to pursue two sessional courses, which last the whole year, designed to give an introduction to some subject not studied at sixth-form level. 1978Sci. Amer. Jan. 12/2 Geesey is a sessional lecturer in the department of biochemistry and microbiology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
e. Pertaining to any period of activity of limited duration. Cf. session n. 7.
1973Scotsman 12 Jan. 17/4 (Advt.), Part-time medical officers for sessional work. 1977Times 29 Aug. 6/2 Members of mixed card clubs paid a sessional fee according to the stake at their table. |