prorogatev.
/ˈprəʊrəɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈproʊrəˌɡeɪt/, Scottish English /ˈprorəɡet/ Originally and chiefly Scottish.† 3. transitive. To call, summon. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. transitive. Chiefly Law. To prolong, lengthen; to extend in time or duration; to cause to last longer; to continue, to protract. Cf. prorogue v. 1a. Now rare.
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the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong
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drawOE
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conservea1398
to draw (out) in, into, at, or on lengtha1400
prorogue1419
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aroomc1440
prorogate?a1475
protend?a1475
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linger1543
defer1546
pertract1548
propagate1548
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detract?a1562
to make forth (long, longer)1565
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dree1584
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to spin out1603
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produce1605
continuate1611
out-length1617
spin1629
to eke out1641
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prolongate1671
drawl1694
drag1697
perennate1698
string1867
perennialize1898
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 193 (MED) He had prorogate his office by the space of v yere.
1552 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 127 With power to thaim to prorogat thair decreit.
1607 W. Alexander Julius Cæsar Argt. He sent to the Senate to have his government of the Gaules prorogated for five years.
1685 Sc. Acts Charles II (1820) VIII. 460/1 The excise of Inland and forraign Commodities Granted to King Charles the Second..by the fourteenth act of the Parliament 1661..and prorogat by the eight act of þe Parliament 1681 for fyve yeares therafter.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xl. 332 I prorogate,..wyre-draw, and shift off the Time.
1701 D. Hume Diary Proc. Parl. Pr. Council Scotl. (1828) 56 A motion, by way of Act, in favours of the Company prorogating their temporary privileges and immunities for the space of 9 years, to ly on the table.
1760 Information for Duke of Queensberry & Messrs. Crawfurds 25 They cannot, by raising an extraordinary Quantity of Ore towards the Close of the Tack, prorogate or continue the Time for which that Licence was granted.
1792 W. Ross Lect. Pract. Law Scotl. II. 340 The terms of redemption are, by this act, prorogated for five years.
1827 Edinb. Advertiser 27 Feb. 1/2 (advt.) The period for receiving Offers for the above Farm is farther Prorogated to the 20th day of March next.
1896 W. K. Morton Man. Law Scotl. 295 To prevent the failure of the submission, power is sometimes given to the arbiter to extend, or prorogate the time.
1907 Act 7 Edward VII c. 51 Sched. i. §56 The Sheriff may upon cause shown prorogate the time for lodging any production or pleading.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1427/2 Prorogate, to extend the time, as for arbitration, a step in process, or the validity of, e.g., a lease.
2003 Africa News (Nexis) 22 Feb. It will help to make the link with the UN panel, whose mandate has been prorogated for a new period of six months.
b. transitive. Law. To extend (the jurisdiction of a court or judge) to a cause which is not properly or usually within the competence of the court or judge. Cf. prorogation n. 4a.
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1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 25 All Ciuill causes,..arising betweene or among the brethren..who either may or will prorogate the Iurisdiction of the said Companie, and their court.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 572 Custome had in this prorogat the power of inferiour Judges.
?1706 Answers John Earl of Sutherland to Petition John Earl of Crawfurd 2 It was not so much as a Decreet, being pronounced by no Judicatory, or by any legal Authority which could so much as be prorogated.
1798 J. Denholm Hist. City of Glasgow 161 Civil actions are..here tried to the amount of forty pounds Scots, or L.3:6:8 Sterling; nay, they may even be prorogated to a greater extent.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. at Prorogation of Jurisdiction Where the proper jurisdiction of the judge is confined to causes amounting to a certain value, parties may prorogate the jurisdiction to causes above that value, unless the statute conferring the jurisdiction prohibits it.
1931 Rep. Non-Parl. Sc. Office in G. Ford & P. Ford Breviate Parl. Papers 1917–1939 (1951) 186 There should be no condition or provision in a contract under which any person prorogated the jurisdiction of a Court in which he was not ordinarily resident.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1427/2 To prorogate jurisdiction means to waive objections to an incompetent jurisdiction.
1995 Guide to New Simplified Divorce in BNC To submit himself to and prorogate the jurisdiction of the Court of Session for said purposes.
2002 Times (Nexis) 15 July 28 Article 17 of Schedule 4 to the 1982 Act provided that the court whose jurisdiction had been prorogated ‘shall have..jurisdiction’.
2.
a. transitive. To defer, postpone; = prorogue v. 2. Now rare.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)]
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lengOE
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defer1382
forbida1387
to put offa1387
to put (also set) (something) in (or on) delaya1393
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to put overc1410
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to fode forth1525
tract1527
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to make stay of1530
surcease1530
prorogate1534
to fay upon longc1540
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leave1559
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to hold off1580
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postpose1598
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elong1610
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to hang up1623
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future1642
off1642
waive1653
superannuate1655
perendinate1656
stave1664
detard1675
remora1686
to put back1718
withhold1726
protract1737
to keep over1847
to hold over1853
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to lay over1885
hold1891
back-burner1975
1534 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. i. 168 With power to thame to proragate and contynew the geving of thair sentence for sic space as thai sal think expedient.
1569 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 31 To prorogat the said day of thair meting.
1675 Rec. Inverness in W. Mackay Rec. Presbyteries Inverness & Dingwall (1896) 62 They..intreated the presbytrie to prorogate their visitation to summer.
1762 Answers Executors W. Dalrymple 8 The time was prorogated to the 12th of February 1762.
1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. 171 The day of assembling was afterwards prorogated to the 2d of August.
1999 S. K. Cohn Creating Florentine State 220 Internal feuds were..given as the reasons for prorogating deadlines for tax payments without penalties.
b. transitive. To discontinue (a regular meeting, assembly, parliament, etc.); = prorogue v. 3a.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)] > a meeting
adjourna1325
jornc1330
prolongc1450
prorogue1455
prorogate1639
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [verb (transitive)] > prorogue
prolongc1450
prorogate1639
prorogue1642
1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 391 These thirty yeeres they have shunned all censure..by procuring generall Assemblies to be prorogate, and then suddenly indicted when they had cunningly prepared both persons and purposes to their minde.
1644 J. Maxwell Answer to Worthy Gentleman 56 He gave order to Prorogate it [sc. the Assembly] to another and longer day.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 580 The Council may prorogat also the dyets appointed for execution.
1720 in C. A. Malcolm Minutes Justices of Peace Lanarkshire (1931) 199 To prorogat their dyets from time to time as they shall see cause.
1833 Times 1 July 2/1 An attempt was made yesterday..to induce the Chamber to prorogate its sittings for two or three days.
1899 North Adams (Mass.) Evening Transcript 27 Oct. 1/3 The queen's speech was read and parliament prorogated with the usual formalities.
1958 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 31 Dec. 2/7 Dr. G. F. McNally, Lieutenant-governor for the house, prorogated the parliament.
2004 Fiji Times (Nexis) 10 June 5 Parliament will be prorogated on July 6 and the President..will address both houses on July 26.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon
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hightOE
clepec1000
ofclepeOE
ofsendOE
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callc1300
summonc1300
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becallc1400
ofgredec1400
require1418
assummonc1450
accitec1475
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mand1483
whistle1486
vocatec1494
wishc1515
to call up1530
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convent1540
convocate1542
prorogate1543
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advocatea1575
citate1581
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to warn in1654
summons1694
invoke1697
to send for1744
to turn up1752
requisition1800
whip1857
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 219 (MED) Edmond Ironeside..After Ethelrede his father, was prorogate Vnto the crowne of all this royall lande.
Derivatives
ˈprorogated adj.
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1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xviii. 158 The standing and prorogated intercession and advocation of Jesus Christ..must have a daily use.
1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. i. ii. §27 Prorogated jurisdiction is that which is, by the consent of parties, conferred on a judge, who, without such consent, would be incompetent.
1850 Act 13 & 14 Victoria c. 36 §2 The original or prorogated period, as the case may be, for lodging a revised condescendence.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1427/2 Prorogated jurisdiction, a power conferred by consent of the parties upon a judge who would not otherwise have adjudicated (Scots Law).
2000 Internat. Lawyer 34 654 The court stressed that, in the absence of the requisite consent of France, Germany, Italy, and the United States, it could not exercise prorogated jurisdiction in these cases.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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