prorogationn.

Brit.

/ˌprəʊrə(ʊ)ˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌproʊrəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s prorogacion, late Middle English– prorogation, 1500s prorogacon, 1500s prorogacyoun; Scottish pre-1700 prorogacione, pre-1700 prorogacioun, pre-1700 prorogatione, pre-1700 prorogatioun, pre-1700 1700s– prorogation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prorogation; Latin prōrogātiōn-, prōrogātiō.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French prorogation, prorogacion (French prorogation ) action of deferring to a later time, prolongation (1313 in Old French) and its etymon classical Latin prōrogātiōn-, prōrogātiō extension, postponement, in post-classical Latin also adjournment (from a1240 in British sources) < prōrogāt- , past participial stem of prōrogāre prorogue v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan prorogascion (1488), Spanish prorrogación (15th cent.), Portuguese prorrogação (1446), Italian prorogazione (1309).

1. The action of causing something to last longer or to continue in effect; prolongation, protraction; further continuance, extension over time; an instance of this. In later use chiefly Roman History: the extension of an official's term of office (cf. prorogue v. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > lengthening in duration or prolonging

continuancec1374

prorogationc1400

prolongation?a1425

training1440

lengthingc1480

enlonging1509

prolonging1528

protraction1535

protract of time1536

productionc1540

trait1545

lengthening1574

continuation1587

prolongment1593

conserving1610

extensiona1631

wire-drawing1640

continuing1643

spinning1644

permansion1646

c1400 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 40 If hit likes the kyng of Skotlond to swere to the prorogacioun of this trewes [etc.].

1419 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) II. 255 (MED) In cas yat yay of Flaundres wol here after desire prorogacion of ye said trewes, we wolde yay were halden in hande wiþ tretee unto ye tyme ye have certiffied us yerof.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 185 (MED) Basilius..convertede also Ioseph the Iewe, an experte leche, thro the prorogacion of his lyfe by oon day.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 278^v The senate would not geue ne graunte vnto Caesar prorogacion, that is to saie, a longer tyme in his dictature.

1617 Bruce's Way to True Peace & Rest ix. 224 It might appeare strange that the King should seeke the prorogation of his dayes, as if there were not a life better then this.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 136/1 Distance of life makes time, and the prorogation of life continueth time.

1688 J. Barnes Hist. Edward III ii. vii. 420 Whereupon the French were quicken'd to a speedy agreement, as to the Prorogation of the foregoing Truce from the 18 of November 1348, unto the 1 of September 1349.

1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II c. 50 §21 By virtue of the prorogation of any lease or tack.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. Prorogation, in judicial proceedings,..a prolongation of the time appointed for reporting a diligence, lodging a paper, or obtempering any other judicial order... Prorogation of a Lease is the extension of it.

1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 253 He himself can count on patriarchal prorogations of existence.

1901 A. H. J. Greenidge Rom. Public Life iv. 204 In the third and early part of the second centuries, before prorogation of command became the normal principle..this regular sortition could not always be observed.

1959 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 53 866 To grant the concessionaire a prorogation of his concession for a period equal to that during which he was prevented from exploiting the concession.

2000 R. A. Bauman Human Rights Anc. Rome v. 38 In the famous letter to his brother Quintus on the prorogation of the latter's Asian governorship, Cicero offers the following advice.

a. The action of proroguing an assembly, esp. a parliament; the formal discontinuance of meetings for a period of time or until the following session, without dissolution; an instance of this. Cf. prorogue v. 3.

ΘΚΠ

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 > [noun] > prorogation

prorogation1472

proroguing1537

1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 31/2 Your Parlement..by dyvers prorogations and adjornamentes, unto the xxi day of Januarii..contynued.

1533 (title) Anno XXIIII Henrici VIII, Actis made in the Session of this present parlyamente, holden vppon prorogation at Westmystre.

1586 Ld. Burghley Let. 15 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 13 We..did procure this prorogation for the other ij. causes.

1638 Duke of Hamilton in Hamilton Papers (1880) 48 A great manie of them came to toune to haue protested against the prorogation [of the General Assembly].

1682 Observator 20 Dec. 1/2 What a Noise it made, the Chopping Parliaments off, by Prorogations.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ii. 187 A prorogation is the continuance of the parliament from one session to another, as an adjournment is a continuation of the session from day to day.

1789 Times 11 June 2/4 The prorogation of Parliament will be no impediment to the King's leaving town, as it will be done by commission.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 164 Bailie Craigdallie..who had advised the prorogation of their civic council to the present place and hour.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 271/1 A bill must be renewed after a prorogation, as if it had never been introduced, though the prorogation be for no more than a day.

1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. §768. 480 The distinction between adjournment and prorogation..is a modern distinction. The necessary adjournment from day to day, as well as the countermanding of a parliament called, and the longer intermission of the session, was known as prorogation.

1938 Winnipeg Free Press 1 July 1/7 With prorogation impossible until this afternoon, the house of commons sat until after midnight yesterday in an effort to conclude its business.

1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time vii. 269 The queen had suggested January 14 as the day for the prorogation of the legislature.

2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) iv. 118 A ‘high noon’ confrontation between the House of Lords and the House of Commons on 20 November [2003], the day the Prorogation of Parliament was due to take place.

b. The period during which the meetings of a legislative assembly are discontinued after it has been prorogued; the interval between successive parliamentary sessions.

ΘΚΠ

prorogation1548

proroguement1660

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cx^v Duryng whiche prorogacion, the common people saied to the Burgesses, sirs, we heare saie you will graunt .iiii.s. of the pound, we aduise you to doo so that you maie go home.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 18 Feb. (1971) IV. 49 This day the Parliament met again after their long prorogacion.

1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 8 It would seem very extraordinary if an inferiour Court in England should take a Matter out of the Hands of the High Court of Parliament, during a Prorogation.

1820 Times 20 Nov. 2/5 A standing committee was appointed to watch over the public affairs [of Spain] during the prorogation, and to lay its report before the legislative body at its meeting in 1821.

1964 L. A. Abraham & S. C. Hawtrey Parl. Dict. (ed. 2) 159 The House of Lords may sit and act for the purpose of hearing and determining appeals during the prorogation of Parliament.

1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 244/2 Garway was one of the government's critics who were included in the royal commission on public accounts appointed during the following prorogation.

3. The action of deferring something to a later time; postponement; an instance of this. Cf. prorogue v. 2a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun]

longingeOE

bideOE

abodec1225

bodea1300

demura1300

dwella1300

litinga1300

delayc1300

delayingc1300

demurrancec1300

but honec1325

without ensoignec1325

abidec1330

dretchingc1330

dwellingc1330

essoinc1330

tarrying1340

litea1350

delaymenta1393

respitea1393

oversettinga1398

delayancea1400

delitea1400

lingeringa1400

stounding?a1400

sunyiea1400

targea1400

train?a1400

deferring14..

dilation14..

dayc1405

prolongingc1425

spacec1430

adjourningc1436

retardationc1437

prolongation?a1439

training1440

adjournment1445

sleuthingc1450

tarry1451

tarriance1460

prorogation1476

oversetc1485

tarriage1488

debaid1489

supersedement1492

superseding1494

off-putting1496

postponing1496

tract1503

dilating1509

sparinga1513

hafting1519

sufferance1523

tracking1524

sticking1525

stay1530

pause1532

protraction1535

tracting1535

protract of time1536

protracting1540

postposition1546

staying1546

procrastination1548

difference1559

surceasing1560

tardation1568

detract1570

detracting1572

tarryment1575

rejourning1578

detraction1579

longness1579

rejournment1579

holding1581

reprieving1583

cunctation1585

retarding1585

retardance1586

temporizing1587

by and by1591

suspensea1592

procrastinatinga1594

tardance1595

linger1597

forslacking1600

morrowing1602

recess1603

deferment1612

attendance1614

put-off1623

adjournal1627

fristing1637

hanging-up1638

retardment1640

dilatoriness1642

suspension1645

stickagea1647

tardidation1647

transtemporation1651

demurragea1656

prolatation1656

prolation1656

moration1658

perendination1658

offput1730

retardure1751

postponement1757

retard1781

traverse1799

tarrowing1832

mañana1845

temporization1888

procrastinativeness1893

deferral1895

traa dy liooar1897

stalling1927

heel-tapping1949

off-put1970

1476 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 56/2 To prufe at the said Gabriel..consentit to the prorogatione of the said decrett.

a1631 J. Donne 50 Serm. (1649) xxvi. 219 Because in this second part [of our text] we are in the Region and Sphear of maledictions, we cannot consider this future, He shall be, as a future of favour, a prorogation, a deferring of the malediction.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Prorogation, a deferring, or putting off to another time.

1693 Vertue Rewarded 183 The short prorogation of their Marriages, only continued till the Prince had prepared for his.

1703 J. Kelsey Serm. 73 He often obtained Pardon, or a Prorogation of the Punishment.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. vi. 160 There is scarcely any thing that produces such a sickness of the heart, as the repeated prorogation of hope.

1805 S. J. Pratt Fire & Frost iv. viii, in Harvest-home II. 484 Lord Freezeland. If her feelings require a prorogation of the ceremony [sc. a wedding] till—Conway. Till the end of the world, I suppose, would be the same thing to you.

1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. §768. 480 The word ‘prorogation’ is constantly used for countermanding or delaying the day of meeting.

1922 H. E. Fisk French Publ. Finance in Great War & To-day vi. 70 A decree..ordering a thirty days moratorium, that is a prorogation of the dates of payments, for commercial notes and for protested paper.

1986 W. Gilmer Law Dict. 269 Prorogation, a putting off to another time, or postponement.

†a. An extension in scope or application. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in scope

extension1590

extendmenta1613

prorogationa1626

extense1630

extendinga1649

extent1657

widening1677

a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 223 Good-will is a kind of Peace; but..with an extent or prorogation, a kind of peace peculiar to men, which the other parts of the earth are not capable of.

b. Law (originally Scots Law). The extension of the jurisdiction of a judge or court, by consent of the parties concerned, to a cause which is not properly or usually within its competence.No longer current in British Law.

ΚΠ

1710 J. Dundas Summary View Feudal Law xix. 80 The Civil Law allows prorogation of Jurisdiction.

1737 in Decisions of Court of Session (1741) I. 510 The Lords refused to grant warrant, because registration being a decreet of consent, is a prorogation of the commissary's jurisdiction.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. at Prorogation of Jurisdiction In order to render prorogation effectual, the judge must have a jurisdiction susceptible of prorogation.

1965 Stanford Law Rev. 17 300 Overcrowded dockets today destroy the vitality of the argument that courts must condemn prorogation to protect their jurisdiction.

1979 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 28 170 For prorogation, consent to jurisdiction must exist in the absence of minimum contracts.

2004 Times (Nexis) 13 Aug. 35 Article 4 of the regulation..provided that..the jurisdiction of a court of a member state would be determined by the domestic law of that state, subject to the prorogation of jurisdiction.

5. Astrology. The procedure of finding or interpreting a prorogator; the action or effect of a prorogator.

ΚΠ

1701 J. Whalley tr. Ptolemy Quadripartite iv. 164 From the Horoscope, the prorogation is taken for Bodily Accidents and Travelling.

1798 J. Worsdale Genethliacal Astrol. (ed. 2) 123 The Places of the Maleficks, Saturn and Mars, kill according to the Prorogation made to the following Signs.

1822 J. M. Ashmand tr. Proclus Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos iii. xiv. 134 (heading) Number of the modes of prorogation.

1940 F. E. Robbins in F. E. Robbins tr. Ptolemy Tetrabiblos iii. x. 271 Bouché-Leclercq's..summary of Ptolemy's system of prorogation is helpful.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prorogation
释义	prorogationn. Brit. /ˌprəʊrə(ʊ)ˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌproʊrəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s prorogacion, late Middle English– prorogation, 1500s prorogacon, 1500s prorogacyoun; Scottish pre-1700 prorogacione, pre-1700 prorogacioun, pre-1700 prorogatione, pre-1700 prorogatioun, pre-1700 1700s– prorogation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prorogation; Latin prōrogātiōn-, prōrogātiō. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French prorogation, prorogacion (French prorogation ) action of deferring to a later time, prolongation (1313 in Old French) and its etymon classical Latin prōrogātiōn-, prōrogātiō extension, postponement, in post-classical Latin also adjournment (from a1240 in British sources) < prōrogāt- , past participial stem of prōrogāre prorogue v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan prorogascion (1488), Spanish prorrogación (15th cent.), Portuguese prorrogação (1446), Italian prorogazione (1309). 1. The action of causing something to last longer or to continue in effect; prolongation, protraction; further continuance, extension over time; an instance of this. In later use chiefly Roman History: the extension of an official's term of office (cf. prorogue v. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > lengthening in duration or prolonging continuancec1374 prorogationc1400 prolongation?a1425 training1440 lengthingc1480 enlonging1509 prolonging1528 protraction1535 protract of time1536 productionc1540 trait1545 lengthening1574 continuation1587 prolongment1593 conserving1610 extensiona1631 wire-drawing1640 continuing1643 spinning1644 permansion1646 c1400 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 40 If hit likes the kyng of Skotlond to swere to the prorogacioun of this trewes [etc.]. 1419 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) II. 255 (MED) In cas yat yay of Flaundres wol here after desire prorogacion of ye said trewes, we wolde yay were halden in hande wiþ tretee unto ye tyme ye have certiffied us yerof. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 185 (MED) Basilius..convertede also Ioseph the Iewe, an experte leche, thro the prorogacion of his lyfe by oon day. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 278^v The senate would not geue ne graunte vnto Caesar prorogacion, that is to saie, a longer tyme in his dictature. 1617 Bruce's Way to True Peace & Rest ix. 224 It might appeare strange that the King should seeke the prorogation of his dayes, as if there were not a life better then this. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 136/1 Distance of life makes time, and the prorogation of life continueth time. 1688 J. Barnes Hist. Edward III ii. vii. 420 Whereupon the French were quicken'd to a speedy agreement, as to the Prorogation of the foregoing Truce from the 18 of November 1348, unto the 1 of September 1349. 1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II c. 50 §21 By virtue of the prorogation of any lease or tack. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. Prorogation, in judicial proceedings,..a prolongation of the time appointed for reporting a diligence, lodging a paper, or obtempering any other judicial order... Prorogation of a Lease is the extension of it. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 253 He himself can count on patriarchal prorogations of existence. 1901 A. H. J. Greenidge Rom. Public Life iv. 204 In the third and early part of the second centuries, before prorogation of command became the normal principle..this regular sortition could not always be observed. 1959 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 53 866 To grant the concessionaire a prorogation of his concession for a period equal to that during which he was prevented from exploiting the concession. 2000 R. A. Bauman Human Rights Anc. Rome v. 38 In the famous letter to his brother Quintus on the prorogation of the latter's Asian governorship, Cicero offers the following advice. 2. a. The action of proroguing an assembly, esp. a parliament; the formal discontinuance of meetings for a period of time or until the following session, without dissolution; an instance of this. Cf. prorogue v. 3. ΘΚΠ 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 > [noun] > prorogation prorogation1472 proroguing1537 1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 31/2 Your Parlement..by dyvers prorogations and adjornamentes, unto the xxi day of Januarii..contynued. 1533 (title) Anno XXIIII Henrici VIII, Actis made in the Session of this present parlyamente, holden vppon prorogation at Westmystre. 1586 Ld. Burghley Let. 15 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 13 We..did procure this prorogation for the other ij. causes. 1638 Duke of Hamilton in Hamilton Papers (1880) 48 A great manie of them came to toune to haue protested against the prorogation [of the General Assembly]. 1682 Observator 20 Dec. 1/2 What a Noise it made, the Chopping Parliaments off, by Prorogations. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ii. 187 A prorogation is the continuance of the parliament from one session to another, as an adjournment is a continuation of the session from day to day. 1789 Times 11 June 2/4 The prorogation of Parliament will be no impediment to the King's leaving town, as it will be done by commission. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 164 Bailie Craigdallie..who had advised the prorogation of their civic council to the present place and hour. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 271/1 A bill must be renewed after a prorogation, as if it had never been introduced, though the prorogation be for no more than a day. 1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. §768. 480 The distinction between adjournment and prorogation..is a modern distinction. The necessary adjournment from day to day, as well as the countermanding of a parliament called, and the longer intermission of the session, was known as prorogation. 1938 Winnipeg Free Press 1 July 1/7 With prorogation impossible until this afternoon, the house of commons sat until after midnight yesterday in an effort to conclude its business. 1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time vii. 269 The queen had suggested January 14 as the day for the prorogation of the legislature. 2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) iv. 118 A ‘high noon’ confrontation between the House of Lords and the House of Commons on 20 November [2003], the day the Prorogation of Parliament was due to take place. b. The period during which the meetings of a legislative assembly are discontinued after it has been prorogued; the interval between successive parliamentary sessions. ΘΚΠ 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 > [noun] > prorogation > time during which parliament is prorogued prorogation1548 proroguement1660 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cx^v Duryng whiche prorogacion, the common people saied to the Burgesses, sirs, we heare saie you will graunt .iiii.s. of the pound, we aduise you to doo so that you maie go home. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 18 Feb. (1971) IV. 49 This day the Parliament met again after their long prorogacion. 1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 8 It would seem very extraordinary if an inferiour Court in England should take a Matter out of the Hands of the High Court of Parliament, during a Prorogation. 1820 Times 20 Nov. 2/5 A standing committee was appointed to watch over the public affairs [of Spain] during the prorogation, and to lay its report before the legislative body at its meeting in 1821. 1964 L. A. Abraham & S. C. Hawtrey Parl. Dict. (ed. 2) 159 The House of Lords may sit and act for the purpose of hearing and determining appeals during the prorogation of Parliament. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 244/2 Garway was one of the government's critics who were included in the royal commission on public accounts appointed during the following prorogation. 3. The action of deferring something to a later time; postponement; an instance of this. Cf. prorogue v. 2a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] longingeOE bideOE abodec1225 bodea1300 demura1300 dwella1300 litinga1300 delayc1300 delayingc1300 demurrancec1300 but honec1325 without ensoignec1325 abidec1330 dretchingc1330 dwellingc1330 essoinc1330 tarrying1340 litea1350 delaymenta1393 respitea1393 oversettinga1398 delayancea1400 delitea1400 lingeringa1400 stounding?a1400 sunyiea1400 targea1400 train?a1400 deferring14.. dilation14.. dayc1405 prolongingc1425 spacec1430 adjourningc1436 retardationc1437 prolongation?a1439 training1440 adjournment1445 sleuthingc1450 tarry1451 tarriance1460 prorogation1476 oversetc1485 tarriage1488 debaid1489 supersedement1492 superseding1494 off-putting1496 postponing1496 tract1503 dilating1509 sparinga1513 hafting1519 sufferance1523 tracking1524 sticking1525 stay1530 pause1532 protraction1535 tracting1535 protract of time1536 protracting1540 postposition1546 staying1546 procrastination1548 difference1559 surceasing1560 tardation1568 detract1570 detracting1572 tarryment1575 rejourning1578 detraction1579 longness1579 rejournment1579 holding1581 reprieving1583 cunctation1585 retarding1585 retardance1586 temporizing1587 by and by1591 suspensea1592 procrastinatinga1594 tardance1595 linger1597 forslacking1600 morrowing1602 recess1603 deferment1612 attendance1614 put-off1623 adjournal1627 fristing1637 hanging-up1638 retardment1640 dilatoriness1642 suspension1645 stickagea1647 tardidation1647 transtemporation1651 demurragea1656 prolatation1656 prolation1656 moration1658 perendination1658 offput1730 retardure1751 postponement1757 retard1781 traverse1799 tarrowing1832 mañana1845 temporization1888 procrastinativeness1893 deferral1895 traa dy liooar1897 stalling1927 heel-tapping1949 off-put1970 1476 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 56/2 To prufe at the said Gabriel..consentit to the prorogatione of the said decrett. a1631 J. Donne 50 Serm. (1649) xxvi. 219 Because in this second part [of our text] we are in the Region and Sphear of maledictions, we cannot consider this future, He shall be, as a future of favour, a prorogation, a deferring of the malediction. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Prorogation, a deferring, or putting off to another time. 1693 Vertue Rewarded 183 The short prorogation of their Marriages, only continued till the Prince had prepared for his. 1703 J. Kelsey Serm. 73 He often obtained Pardon, or a Prorogation of the Punishment. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. vi. 160 There is scarcely any thing that produces such a sickness of the heart, as the repeated prorogation of hope. 1805 S. J. Pratt Fire & Frost iv. viii, in Harvest-home II. 484 Lord Freezeland. If her feelings require a prorogation of the ceremony [sc. a wedding] till—Conway. Till the end of the world, I suppose, would be the same thing to you. 1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. §768. 480 The word ‘prorogation’ is constantly used for countermanding or delaying the day of meeting. 1922 H. E. Fisk French Publ. Finance in Great War & To-day vi. 70 A decree..ordering a thirty days moratorium, that is a prorogation of the dates of payments, for commercial notes and for protested paper. 1986 W. Gilmer Law Dict. 269 Prorogation, a putting off to another time, or postponement. 4. †a. An extension in scope or application. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in scope extension1590 extendmenta1613 prorogationa1626 extense1630 extendinga1649 extent1657 widening1677 a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 223 Good-will is a kind of Peace; but..with an extent or prorogation, a kind of peace peculiar to men, which the other parts of the earth are not capable of. b. Law (originally Scots Law). The extension of the jurisdiction of a judge or court, by consent of the parties concerned, to a cause which is not properly or usually within its competence.No longer current in British Law. ΚΠ 1710 J. Dundas Summary View Feudal Law xix. 80 The Civil Law allows prorogation of Jurisdiction. 1737 in Decisions of Court of Session (1741) I. 510 The Lords refused to grant warrant, because registration being a decreet of consent, is a prorogation of the commissary's jurisdiction. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. at Prorogation of Jurisdiction In order to render prorogation effectual, the judge must have a jurisdiction susceptible of prorogation. 1965 Stanford Law Rev. 17 300 Overcrowded dockets today destroy the vitality of the argument that courts must condemn prorogation to protect their jurisdiction. 1979 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 28 170 For prorogation, consent to jurisdiction must exist in the absence of minimum contracts. 2004 Times (Nexis) 13 Aug. 35 Article 4 of the regulation..provided that..the jurisdiction of a court of a member state would be determined by the domestic law of that state, subject to the prorogation of jurisdiction. 5. Astrology. The procedure of finding or interpreting a prorogator; the action or effect of a prorogator. ΚΠ 1701 J. Whalley tr. Ptolemy Quadripartite iv. 164 From the Horoscope, the prorogation is taken for Bodily Accidents and Travelling. 1798 J. Worsdale Genethliacal Astrol. (ed. 2) 123 The Places of the Maleficks, Saturn and Mars, kill according to the Prorogation made to the following Signs. 1822 J. M. Ashmand tr. Proclus Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos iii. xiv. 134 (heading) Number of the modes of prorogation. 1940 F. E. Robbins in F. E. Robbins tr. Ptolemy Tetrabiblos iii. x. 271 Bouché-Leclercq's..summary of Ptolemy's system of prorogation is helpful. 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