Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Without a day specified for a future meeting; indefinitely: Parliament was dismissed sine die.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Without day: used in connection with an adjournment of an assembly, or of any business or cause, without any specified day or time for reassembling, or resuming the subject or business. When a prisoner is suffered to go sine die, he is practically discharged.
Wiktionary
- adv. Without specifying a date (for a future event); indefinitely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. without a date fixed (as of an adjournment)
Etymologies
- From the Latin sine ("without") + diē, the ablative singular of diēs ("a day"). Literally meaning "without a day". (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin : Latin sine, without + Latin diē, ablative of diēs, day. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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briwref's list
defalcation, macerate, beldam, nescience, ochlocracy, bibelot, estivate, spatulated, introversive, mastoidal, belletristic, objurgation and 108 more...
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The Request Line
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swingeing, affiant, dahlia, hydrangea, re, clematis, Nabokov, casu marzu, schadenfreudgeon, nefarious, mewl, manteion and 170 more...
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Latin
tempus fugit, ad absurdum, ad hominem, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, deus ex machina, in absentia, in loco parentis, in vino veritas, ipso facto, mea culpa, memento mori and 36 more...
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Pop Latin
Commonly used Latin expressions
viva voce, vide supre, vide, supra, stet, status quo, sine qua non, sine die, sic, quid pro quo, pro rata, pro bono and 24 more...
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It's a date!
date, date palm, dating, save the date, it's a date, radiocarbon dating, uranium-thorium d..., rubidium-strontiu..., date night, date of birth, dateline, double date and 65 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Foreign Phrases
sui generis, non sequitur, carte blanche, ad nauseam, ad interim, ad infinitum, de rigueur, ultra vires, ex parte, ad hoc, bon vivant, double entendre and 22 more...
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rexarul's Words
benedictus, mumpsimus, hocus-pocus, suo motu, locus standi, ultra vires, sui generis, rara avis, sine die, inchorate, illeist, accismus and 36 more...
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