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Prorogue v. t. (past & past part. prorogued; pres. part. proroguing)

To protract; to prolong; to extend. (Obs.) "He prorogued his government."

To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage.

To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business. "Parliament was prorogued to (meet at) Westminster." "The Parliament was again prorogued to a distant day."

Synonyms: To adjourn; postpone; defer. See Adjourn.

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"Prorogue" Quotes from Famous Books

... began a parliament at Westminster; and because the King, by reason of his infirmity, could not in his own person be present, he appointed and ordained (p. 438) in his name his brother, Thomas Beaufort, then Chancellor of England, to open, continue, and prorogue it. In which parliament Prince Henry desired from his father the resignation of his kingdom and crown, because that his father, by reason of his malady, could not labour for the honour and advantage of the kingdom any longer; but in this ...

— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler

... for the life of me conceive what fear there can be that the two Houses will not adjourn, considering that the great point which they all wish, is that they may not be obliged to pledge themselves. The extraordinary anxiety in those whom you see, to get you to prorogue, is, in my opinion, a very strong proof of their being actuated by that sort ...

— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... Amongst other things it is there stated if she observed that the councils were divided by factions, or, what would be far worse, prepared by private conferences before the session, and in league with one another, then she was to prorogue all the chambers and dispose arbitrarily of the disputed articles in a more select council or committee. In this select committee, which was called the Consulta, sat the Archbishop of Arras, the President Viglius, ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller