Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To adjourn to another hearing; defer.
- To refer; send for information, proof, or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To adjourn; to put off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
adjourn ; toput off .
Etymologies
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Examples
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To whose divine treatises, and to the Scriptures themselves, I rejourn all such atheistical spirits, as Tully did Atticus, doubting of this point, to Plato's
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You are ambitious for poor knaves caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of three-pence to a second day of audience.
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You are ambitious for poor knaves 'caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a second day of audience.
Coriolanus 1607
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You are ambitious for poor knaves’ caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a second day of audience.
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