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.