REJOURN

Etymology

Verb

rejourn (third-person singular simple present rejourns, present participle rejourning, simple past and past participle rejourned)

(obsolete, transitive) To adjourn; to put off.

• William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, ii 1

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 threepence to a second day of audience.

Source: Wiktionary


Re*journ" (r-jrn"), v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. réajourner. See Adjourn.]

Definition: To adjourn; to put off. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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