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Prorogue

verb
(past & past part. prorogued; pres. part. proroguing)
1.
Hold back to a later time.  Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table.
2.
Adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body.






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"Prorogue" Quotes from Famous Books



... jackal of the jungle, bears such brand As man's black heart, who shrinks not to confess The desperate deed of his deliberate hand. Our kind, our kin, have done this thing. We stand Bowed earthward, red with shame, to see such wrong Prorogue Love's cause and ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. I (of II.), Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic • Emma Lazarus

... at length, a new charter was framed, introducing some changes which affected radically the independence that had been long practically possessed by the colony. The governor was to be appointed by the crown, was enabled to call, adjourn, prorogue, and dissolve the assembly at pleasure; he had the appointment solely, of all military officers; and, with the consent of his council, of all officers belonging to the ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) • John Marshall

... circumscribed and shut in by the immoveable barriers of law, usages, positive rules of doctrine and practice, counterpoised by the House of Lords, and every moment of its existence at the discretion of the crown to continue, prorogue, or dissolve us? The power of the House of Commons, direct or indirect, is indeed great; and long may it be able to preserve its greatness, and the spirit belonging to true greatness, at the full; and it will do so, as long as it can keep the breakers of law in India from becoming ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke



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