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prorogue


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Prorogue  \Pro*rogue"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Prorogued};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Proroguing}.]  [F.  proroger  L.  prorogare,  prorogatum 
  pro  forward  +  rogare  to  ask  to  ask  one  for  his  opinion  or 
  vote,  or  about  a  law.  See  {Rogation}.] 
  1.  To  protract;  to  prolong;  to  extend.  [Obs.] 
 
  He  prorogued  his  government.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  To  defer;  to  delay;  to  postpone;  as  to  proroguedeath  to 
  prorogue  a  marriage.  --Shak. 
 
  3.  To  end  the  session  of  a  parliament  by  an  order  of  the 
  sovereign,  thus  deferring  its  business. 
 
  Parliament  was  prorogued  to  [meet  at]  Westminster. 
  --Bp.  Hall. 
 
  The  Parliament  was  again  prorogued  to  a  distant  day 
  --Macaulay. 
 
  Syn:  To  adjourn;  postpone;  defer.  See  {Adjourn}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  prorogue 
  v  :  adjourn  by  royal  prerogative;  without  dissolving  the 
  legislative  body 




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