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Adjournment   /ədʒˈərnmənt/   Listen
noun
Adjournment  n.  
1.
The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
2.
The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.





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"Adjournment" Quotes from Famous Books



... work of investigation the commissioners found that they had need of the records of the House of Burgesses. In April, 1677, after the adjournment of the session at Green Spring, they came to Major Robert Beverley, the clerk of the Assembly, and demanded "all the Originall Journals, Orders, Acts", etc., then in his custody.[823] Beverley required them to show their authority, and this they did, by giving him a ...
— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker
... rally delegates round the shamed but steadfast nucleus of the bribed and the bossed. In vain his orator moved an adjournment until "calmness and reason shall be restored." The answer made him shrink and sink into his seat. For it was an awful, deafening roll of the war-drums of that exalted passion ...
— The Cost • David Graham Phillips
... the infant-claimant, thereupon requested an adjournment, in order to meet the new case thus presented. Their lordships, however, refused to comply with his desire until they had had an opportunity of examining Mrs. Howard; but when that lady was called she did not appear, and it was discovered that she had left ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous
... fathers and mothers in the company began to suggest adjournment. Oncle Jazon's elbow was tired and the enthusiasm generated by his unrecognized Bergonzi became fitful, while the relaxing crowd rapidly encroached upon the space set apart for the dancers. In the open lamps suspended here and there the oil was running low, and ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... the examination of these character witnesses, Hammer finishing with the last of them just before the midday adjournment. The sheriff was preparing to remove the prisoner. Joe's hand had been released from the arm of the chair, and the officer had fastened the iron around his wrist. The proceeding always struck Joe with an overwhelming wave of degradation and ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden


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