Definition for AD-JOURN'

AD-JOURN', v.i.

To suspend business for a time; as, from one day to another, or for a longer period, usually public business, as of legislatures and courts, for repose or refreshment; as, Congress adjourned at four o'clock. It is also used for the act of closing the session of a public body; as, the court adjourned without day. It was moved that parliament should adjourn for six weeks. – Select Speeches, vol. v, 403.

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