[a. Mfr. adjournement:—OFr. ajornement; see ADJOURN and -MENT.]
1. The act of adjourning, or of putting off till another day, or indefinitely.
1641. Termes de la Ley, 11. Adjournement, is when any Court is dissolved and determined, and assigned to be kept againe at another place or time.
1762. Hume, Hist. Eng. (1806), IV. lxv. 789. The parliament met, according to adjournment.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., III. xx. 480. The distinction between adjournment and prorogation, in so far the one belongs to the houses and the other to the crown, is a modern distinction.
2. The state of being adjourned; the interval during which the business of an assembly is formally deferred.
1670. in Somers’s Tracts, I. 28. During one Day’s Adjournment made by the House.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. xiv. 126. A day’s adjournment was granted.
