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Adjourn

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Once written ajorn. French, à-journer, to put off to another day.

“He ajorned tham to relie in the North of Carlele.”—Longtoft: Chronicle, p. 309.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Adept
Adessenarians
Adeste Fidelës
Adfiliate, Adfiliation
Adha, al (the slit-eared)
Ad hab-al-Cabr
Adiaphorists
Adieu
Adissechen
Adjective Colours
Adjourn
Adjournment of the House
Admirable (The)
Admirable Crichton (The)
Admirable Doctor (Doctor admirdbilis)
Admiral
Admiral of the Blue
Admiral of the Red
Admittance
Admonitionists or Admonitioners
Adolpha