rejourn
English
Etymology
Compare French réajourner. See adjourn.
Verb
rejourn (third-person singular simple present rejourns, present participle rejourning, simple past and past participle rejourned)
- (obsolete, transitive) To adjourn; to put off.
- William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, ii 1
- You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.
- William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, ii 1