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单词 prorogatory
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prorogatoryadj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prorogate v., -ory suffix2.
Etymology: < prorogate v. + -ory suffix2.
Obsolete.
1. Deferred, delayed. rare.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed
remiss?1518
adjourned1538
delayed1548
long-delayed1548
lag1552
prorogued1552
dilated1556
lagging1597
retardate1598
fristeda1600
lagged1602
retarded1636
deferred1651
prorogatory1672
lated1676
postponed1819
protracted1838
suspended1848
put-off1871
hung up1878
held1906
1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter xviii. 471 The Grand Festival, began to flag, by a removal of the observation of St. George's day from Windesor (the place particularly appointed for it) and a prorogatory celebration of the Grand Feast to other times.
2. Astrology. Of or relating to a prorogator; of the nature of a prorogator.
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1697 J. Partridge Defectio Geniturarum ii. 168 How he will form an intelligible Notion to be believed, that this prorogatory virtue or power can be liable or subject to any Retrogradation..that can alter the progressive motion in Direction, I cannot think.
1701 J. Whalley tr. Ptolemy Quadripartite iii. 107 The Aphetic, Hylegiacal and Prorogatory Places the same:..are the places whence the Apheta, Hyleg or Prorogator (which are all one) is taken.
1794 Astrologer's Mag. 124/1 The Sun is distant from the ascendant but four degrees of oblique ascension, and the Moon not two degrees from the seventh; consequently both the lights are in prorogatory places.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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