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English
Etymology
From adjourn + -al.
Noun
adjournal (countable and uncountable, plural adjournals)
- (dated) adjournment; postponement
1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. , volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, ; and Cadell & Co., , →OCLC:Availing themselves of an adjournal of the Diet for the Easter holidays
Derived terms
References
- “adjournal, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- “adjournal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.