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Postpone (court case)
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adjourn
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To postpone. 2 (context transitive English) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely. 3 (context intransitive English) To end or suspend an event. 4 (context intransitive formal uncommon English) To move from one ...
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v. close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" [syn: recess , break up ] break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: withdraw , retire ]
Usage examples of adjourn.
Lord John Russell simply moved that the house at its rising should adjourn to the Monday following.
The lord-keeper delivered to the house a message from the queen, desiring they would adjourn to the fourteenth day of the month.
The anti-courtiers alleged, that the queen could not send a message to any one house to adjourn, but ought to have directed it to both houses.
Stevens spoke on the 18th of December, and Congress had already voted to adjourn on the 21st for the Christmas recess.
Wade was not sustained by the Senate and the motion to adjourn was carried by 33 to 12.
But as the breach between himself and Congress widened, as the bitterness between the partisans of the Executive and of the Legislative Departments grew more intense, the belief became general, that, as soon as Congress should adjourn, there would be a removal of all Federal officers throughout the Union who were not faithful to the principles, and did not respond to the exactions, of the Administration.
The Senate and the House were both ready to adjourn on the 20th of July, but Mr.
Lord Althorp stated that the house would adjourn for the Christmas holidays.
Ministers were first compelled to adjourn the debate from the 3rd of July to the 10th, and on the 10th it was found necessary to adjourn it again to the 13th.
Lord Althorp here arose to request the house to adjourn, in consequence of circumstances which had come to his knowledge since he had entered the house.
The Emperor might prorogue, adjourn, or dissolve the House of Representatives, whose sittings were to be public.
General Court, asking the judges to adjourn until the General Court could act on behalf of the farmers.
The present state of affairs was this: the assembly having been convened to consider the resolutions passed in parliament, had been adjourned on their refusal to entertain the supplies, or to proceed to business.
On the following day both houses of parliament adjourned to the 16th of January.
After a long speech from Lord Stanley, and a few words from Lord Morpeth in defence of government, the house was adjourned till the following day, when Mr.