adjournal
English
Etymology
Noun
adjournal (countable and uncountable, plural adjournals)
- (dated) adjournment; postponement
- 1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […]; and Cadell & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Availing themselves of an adjournal of the Diet for the Easter holidays
Derived terms
References
- “adjournal, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- “adjournal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.