Word Meanings - ADJOURNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adjournment; postponement. "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to ADJOURNAL)

• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• ADJOURNAL
  Adjournment; postponement. "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.
• ADJOURNMENT
  1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. 2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
• POSTPONEMENT
  The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• READJOURNMENT
  The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.