c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 21 (MED) The most short aiournyng.

c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 27 Ȝif [printed zif] it be day of litel plees, be it aiourned to the next court of litel plees after the xv day of the aiournyng.

1572 Chamberlain's Accts. in J. Webb Town Finances Elizabethan Ipswich (1996) 106 Paid for sendinge of a lettre to Mr Clenche to lett him understonde of the adiornynge of the cessions viijd.

1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth vi. 55 Thy death-bed shall smart for these wilfull adiournings of repentance.

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 584 They passed a Declaration for adjourning of part of next Easter terme.

1702 R. Cocks Diary 12 Feb. in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 212 The chief argument for adjourning of the poll was the reason of the act of Parliament.

1779 Gen. Evening Post 29 June The question of adjourning was then put, and carried without any opposition.

1866 E. E. Crowe Hist. France IV. xxxv. 223 France..stood in need of something more than a mere weathering and adjourning of difficulties.

1921 Bull. Amer. Assoc. University Professors 7 94 The Kirkpatrick dismissal was ordered by the Board of Trustees before the adjourning of their June, 1919, meeting.

1984 Times 8 Mar. 6/2 The adjourning of trials to allow barristers..to prepare for trial would only be a temporary expedient.

2008 Brantford (Ontario) Expositor (Nexis) 17 May d1 The multitudinous adjournings are due almost entirely to the slipshod manner in which the cases are laid before the Court.

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 103 Adjourning Plagues they use to bring, In Peccant Autumns or the Spring.

1701 F. Atterbury Let. to Clergyman in Country 4/2 He had nothing to do but make an Archbishop, who should be ready to exert his Adjourning Power, as directed.

1829 Friend 7 Apr. 205/1 He was refused the use of the table, to open the meeting, and make an adjourning minute.

1865 F. B. Goodrich Tribute Bk. vi. 164 Court was adjourned for a fortnight, the adjourning judge giving his services to the ladies.

1908 Proc. Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. 56th Ann. Meeting 981 The Chair then invited Mr. Beringer to proceed with the presentation of his paper on ‘Fluidglycerates’, and which was interrupted by the adjourning hour.

2009 L. Westfall Certified Software Quality Engineer Handbk. (2010) v. 53 However, at some point the team may complete all of its work and enter an adjourning phase where the team accomplishes its mission, shuts down its efforts and disbands.

1816 W. Coxe Mem. Sir R. Walpole (new ed.) III. xlvi. 264 He threw himself, in a reclining posture, and in an inconsolable manner, upon the arms and end of an adjourning [1798 (ed. 1) adjoining] table and chair.

1862 Friend 11 Nov. 84/2 About five yards from Cockle's house, and in an adjourning field, there is a young elm-tree.

1925 Rotarian Aug. 48/2 Rotarians of the Spanish-speaking countries were holding their convention dinner in an adjourning room at the same time.

1961 Crisis Mar. 133/1 Fourteen miles northward on a macadam road, State Highway 76, lies Brownsville, another town in an adjourning county.

2003 I. McKinnon In Line of Duty 134/2 After almost two hours the remaining perpetrator was found in a vacant elevator shaft in a basement of an adjourning building.