Part 168

<hw>Ad*join"ant</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Contiguous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Carew.</i>

<h1>Adjoining</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*join"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; <as>as, an <ex>adjoining</ex> room</as>.</def> "The <i>adjoining</i> fane."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>Upon the hills <b>adjoining</b> to the city. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See <er>Adjacent</er>.</syn>

<h1>Adjoint</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad"joint</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An adjunct; a helper.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Adjourn</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*journ</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Adjourned</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Adjourning</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>ajornen</ets>, OF. <ets>ajoiner</ets>, <ets>ajurner</ets>, F. <ets>ajourner</ets>; OF. <ets>a</ets> (L. <ets>ad</ets>) + <ets>jor</ets>, <ets>jur</ets>, <ets>jorn</ets>, F. <ets>jour</ets>, day, fr. L. <ets>diurnus</ets> belonging to the day, fr. <ets>dies</ets> day. Cf. <er>Journal</er>, <er>Journey</er>.]</ety> <def>To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; <as>as, to <ex>adjourn</ex> the meeting; to <ex>adjourn</ex> a debate.</as></def>

<blockquote>It is a common practice to <b>adjourn</b> the reformation of their lives to a further time. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>'Tis a needful fitness That we <b>adjourn</b> this court till further day. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend.</syn> <usage> -- To <er>Adjourn</er>, <er>Prorogue</er>, <er>Dissolve</er>. These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. <i>Adjourn</i>, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. <i>Prorogue</i> is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn <i>sine die</i>. To <i>dissolve</i> is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted.</usage>

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<hw>Ad*journ"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt><def>To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; <as>as, congress <ex>adjourned</ex> at four o'clock; the court <ex>adjourned</ex> without day.</as></def>

<h1>Adjournal</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*journ"al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Adjournment; postponement.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "An <i>adjournal</i> of the Diet."

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Adjournment</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*journ"ment</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. f. <ets>adjournement</ets>, OF. <ets>ajornement</ets>. See <er>Adjourn</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.</def>

<h1>Adjudge</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*judge"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Adjudged</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Adjudging</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>ajugen</ets>, OF. <ets>ajugier</ets>, fr. L. <ets>adjudicare</ets>; <ets>ad + judicare</ets> to judge. See <er>J</er>udge, and cf. <er>Adjudicate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; <as>as, the prize was <ex>adjudged</ex> to the victor</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; <as>as, the case was <ex>adjudged</ex> in the November term</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To sentence; to condemn.</def>

<blockquote>Without reprieve, <b>adjudged</b> to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To regard or hold; to judge; to deem.</def>