单词 | prorogatory |
释义 | † prorogatoryadj. Obsolete. 1. Deferred, delayed. rare. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < adj.1672 |
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