Word Meanings - PROROGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

forward + rogare to ask, to ask one for his opinion or vote, or about 1. To protract; to prolong; to extend. He prorogued his government. Dryden. 2. To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage. Shak. 3. To end

Additional info about word: PROROGUE

forward + rogare to ask, to ask one for his opinion or vote, or about 1. To protract; to prolong; to extend. He prorogued his government. Dryden. 2. To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage. Shak. 3. To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business. Parliament was prorogued to Westminster. Bp. Hall. The Parliament was again prorogued to a distant day. Macaulay. Syn. -- To adjourn; postpone; defer. See Adjourn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROROGUE)

• Defer
• Delay
• postpone
• waive
• adjourn
• prorogue
• put off
• retard
• procrastinate
• protract
• hinder
• prolong
• Postpone
• delay

Related words: (words related to PROROGUE)

• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• DEFERENTIALLY
  With deference.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• WAIVE
  A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 , and the Note. (more info) 1. A waif; a castaway. Donne.
• PROLONGE
  A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
• POSTPONE
  1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• PROCRASTINATE
  To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak. Syn. -- To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay;
• POSTPONER
  One who postpones.
• DEFERENTIAL
  Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
• RETARDATION
  The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards. 4. The extent to which anything
• DEFER
  To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton. (more info) different ways; dis-
• PROTRACTILE
  Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
• DEFERMENT
  The act of delaying; postponement. My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.
• PROLONGATE
  To prolong; to extend in space or in time.
• PROTRACT
  To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot. (more info) 1. To draw out or lengthen in time or in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war. 2. To put off to
• PROLONGATION
  1. The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction. Bacon. 2. That which forms an additional length.
• DEFERVESCENCE; DEFERVESCENCY
  The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia. (more info) 1. A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. A defervescency in holy actions. Jer. Taylor.
• ADJOURNAL
  Adjournment; postponement. "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.
• PROLONGABLE
  Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.
• READJOURN
  To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.