单词 | prorogued |
释义 | proroguedadj. Subject to prorogation; extended in duration; (now esp.) deferred, adjourned. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed remiss?1518 adjourned1538 delayed1548 long-delayed1548 lag1552 prorogued1552 dilated1556 lagging1597 retardate1598 fristeda1600 lagged1602 retarded1636 deferred1651 prorogatory1672 lated1676 postponed1819 protracted1838 suspended1848 put-off1871 hung up1878 held1906 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Proroged, prorogatus. 1607 Trag. Claudius Tiberius Nero sig. C2 We deligated to Germanicus, Asinius Gallus into Germanie, With twice foure yeares prorogued Consulship. 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 79 That which we call life is but a prorogued Death, and Divine Justice seems to take pleasure in prolonging it. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 135 The King..went privately..as if it had been to a return of a prorogued or adjourn'd Parliament. 1781 Guide Candidates & Electors p. xiv Members are free from arrests &c. for treason or felony, during the session..but this privilege..ceases, after prorogation and dissolution, till the prorogued parliament be re-assembled. 1868 Littell's Living Age Nov. 380/2 M. de Kératry, who commanded an Imperial counter-guerrilla in Mexico, now claiming for the prorogued Assembly..the right to constitute itself unconvoked this very month. 1959 J. Rothschild Communist Party of Bulgaria ii. 38 Of the 175 members of the prorogued Sobranie, 150 had been Liberals and 6 belonged to Malinov's Democratic Party. 2004 London (Ont.) Free Press (Nexis) 20 Feb. a9 According to legislation, any auditor general's report that has been delayed because of a prorogued Parliament must be tabled within 15 days of a new sitting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1552 |
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