adjournal

English

Etymology

adjourn +‎ -al

Noun

adjournal (countable and uncountable, plural adjournals)

1. (dated) adjournment; postponement
   • 1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: [...] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […]; and Cadell & Co., […], →OCLC:

     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.
• “adjournal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.