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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prorogation \Pro`ro*ga"tion\, n. [L. prorogatio: cf. F. prorogation.]
The act of counting in duration; prolongation. [Obs.]
--South.-
The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the sovereign. [Eng.]
Note: After an adjournment all things continue as they were at the adjournment; whereas, after a prorogation, bill introduced and nut passed are as if they had never been begun at all.
--Mozley & W.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context politics English) The period between two sessions of a legislative body. When a legislature or parliament is prorogued, it is still constituted (that is, all members remain as members and a general election is not necessary), but all orders of the body (bills, motions, etc.) are expunged. 2 The action of prorogue an assembly.
WordNet
n. discontinuing the meetings (of a legislative body) without dissolving it
Wikipedia
Prorogation is the time between legislative sessions.
Prorogation may refer to:
- Prorogatio, extension of a commander's imperium in ancient Rome
- Prorogation in Canada, the end of a session in the Parliament of Canada
Usage examples of "prorogation".
They hoped by this plan to keep all friends of government from giving any information concerning their councils, and to finish their business before the governor could interfere with a prorogation or dissolution.
Several attempts were made to bring about an address against a prorogation, but many members were now gone on their summer rambles, and those who remained were chiefly impatient for repose, whence all these attempts failed.
The answer of his majesty to this address was reported on the 24th, and it contained an assurance that he would not interrupt their meeting by any exercise of his prerogative, either by prorogation or dissolution.
Warren Hastings, or to prevent the proceedings in the impeachment of Lord Melville from being affected by any prorogation or dissolution of parliament.
Brand, censuring ministers for the length of the late prorogation, which had caused delay in public affairs of importance, was negatived by ninety against twenty-three.
Sir Robert was interrupted by the sergeant-at-arms, who knocked at the door, and the usher of the black rod, who suddenly appeared to summons the speaker and the members, to the house of peers, to hear the prorogation of parliament.
On the prorogation of the provincial parliament everything denoted imminent troubles.
Her majesty, in her speech on the prorogation of parliament, alluded to an army which the governor-general had led across the Indus.
Her majesty having taken her seat, the Lord Chancellor directed Sir Augustus Clifford, Usher of the Black Rod, to summon the House of Commons to hear the royal speech on the prorogation of parliament.
After the prorogation, the court proceeded to Cowes, where a squadron was in readiness, and her majesty, with her husband and children, embarked and proceeded on their voyage on the night of the 1st of August.
During the prorogation a permanent committee was formed, in which a small minority of republicans was placed by the votes of the assembly.
When the parliament met after the prorogation, they entered anew upon the business of supply, and granted the king an additional duty, during eight years, of twelve pounds on each tun of Spanish wine imported, eight on each tun of French.
Oates and Bedloe, that even during the prorogation the people were not allowed to remain in tranquillity.
When Napoleon returned from the great disaster Davoust gave his voice for the only wise policy, --resistance and the prorogation of the factious Chambers.
Speech on the prorogation of Parliament this February was one of the most remarkable royal utterances that have ever been made from the British throne.