It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of
their lives to a further time. --Barrow.
'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till
further day. --Shak.
Syn: To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend.
Usage: To {Adjourn}, {Prorogue}, {Dissolve}. These words are
used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside
business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain
and this country, is applied to all cases in which
such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view
to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to
that act of the executive government, as the
sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a
close. The word is not used in this country, but a
legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn
sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate
existence of a body. In order to exist again the body
must be reconstituted.