单词 | sine die |
释义 | sine dien. Without any day being specified (for reassembling, resumption of business, trial of a person or cause, etc.); indefinitely. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > infrequently or it rarely happens [phrase] > without a date set for resumption or indefinitely without day1607 sine die1631 1631 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) II. 125 My Lord of Salisbury's cause is put off sine die. 1641 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. (1642) 9 Among all these I observe one, a very main one, to sleep sine die. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §146 217 They seemed to lie there, without Bail or Trial sine Die. 1793 E. Gibbon Let. 18 Nov. (1956) 297 If I hear that your Journey to Denham is put off sine die, or to a long Day, I shall on Monday morning set off for London. 1803 M. Cutler Jrnl. 3 Mar. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 118 At fifteen minutes after twelve at night, the House adjourned sine die. 1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 222 The fête was postponed sine die. 1892 Nation 22 Dec. 466/1 The reasons given for taking a recess instead of adjourning sine die are extremely puerile. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1631 |
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