adjournal

English

Etymology

adjourn +‎ -al

Noun

adjournal (countable and uncountable, plural adjournals)

1. adjournment; postponement
   • 1827, Walter Scott, the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte:

     Availing themselves of an adjournal of the Diet for the Easter holidays

References

• “adjournal, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for adjournal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)