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Definition of Adjourning
1. adjourn [v] - See also: adjourn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjourning
Literary usage of Adjourning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1877)
"REMARKS IN THE SENATE, ON RESOLUTIONS adjourning CONGRESS, MARCH 23, 26, 28, ...
MARCH 23d, Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, offered a resolution adjourning the ..."
2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"I think six were for adjourning, of whom Mr. Davenport and I were two. Col.
Byfield comes to Town from Cambridge, brings me a Letter from Mr. Leverett. ..."
3. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"... Schofield and Evarts — John A. Griswold claiming Credit for the Monitor to
the Exclusion of the Navy Department — Congress, instead of adjourning, ..."
4. Handbook of American Constitutional Law by Henry Campbell Black (1897)
"CONVENING AND adjourning CONGRESS. 79. The President may, on extraordinary
occasions, convene both houses of congress or either of them ..."
5. The Law Chronicle: A Monthly Journal (1858)
"17] —Notice of appeal—Entering and adjourning.—Sec. 88 of the 5 & 6 Will. 4, c.
50, enacts, with reference to appeals against a certificate under s. ..."
6. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its by Henry Martyn Dexter, Andover Theological Seminary (1880)
"... member's voting has come down to our time ; as, with our rule of delegation,
it surely suits the equity of the subject. 11. adjourning for a Purpose. ..."
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