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单词 sessional
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sessionaladj.

/ˈsɛʃənəl/
Etymology: < session n. + -al suffix1.
Pertaining to a session or sessions.
a. Belonging or relating to, supplied by, a kirk-session.
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1715 in 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.].
1811 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1849) I. 218 I gave her sessional assistance.
1849 W. Hanna Mem. T. 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.
1885 A. Edgar Old Church Life Scotl. 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.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > a or the session of a court > [adjective]
sessionary1702
sessional1832
1832 Act 2 & 3 William IV c. 64 §9 Such other places..as are locally situated within..the said sessional divisions.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) VI. 326 Scott being then on one of his short Sessional visits to Abbotsford.
1846 S. G. Osborne Let. 28 May (1891) I. 6 The sitting on the quarter sessional bench.
1883 Fortn. 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 Canadian, sessional indemnity, the remuneration received by a member of a legislative assembly.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [adjective] > relating to sitting
sessional1834
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [adjective] > recurring every sitting
sessional1886
1834 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 14 Sept. 577/2 Reformers..see no reason why the sessional stages should not be completed.
1839 Times 7 Sept. 4/1 He will make a sessional motion in the House of Commons.
1844 T. E. May Parl. Pract. 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.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) vii. 81 The Sessional dinners of each House.
1900 E. 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.
1963 Globe & 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 3d) in an educational institution.
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society > education > educational administration > [adjective] > session or term
terminal1610
winterim1964
sessional1965
1965 Listener 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.
1978 Sci. 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.
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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > relating to period of activity of limited duration
time-ridden1851
sessional1973
1973 Scotsman 12 Jan. 17/4 (advt.) Part-time medical officers for sessional work.
1977 Times 29 Aug. 6/2 Members of mixed card clubs paid a sessional fee according to the stake at their table.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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