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Word Meanings - ADJOURNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adjournment; postponement. "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to ADJOURNAL)

  • SCOTTICIZE
    To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
  • ADJOURNAL
    Adjournment; postponement. "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.
  • ADJOURNMENT
    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.
  • POSTPONEMENT
    The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.
  • SCOTTISH
    Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
  • SCOTTISH TERRIER
    See TERRIER
  • SCOTTERING
    The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
  • SCOTTICISM
    An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
  • MASCOT; MASCOTTE
    A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
  • READJOURNMENT
    The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

 

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