Sejmn.

1698 J. Savage Hist. Poland II. iii. 83 The Grand Diet or Parliament of Poland, by the Natives call'd Seym Walny.]

1893 W. R. Morfill Poland v. 40 Ladislaus had assembled the first known Seym, or Diet, at Checiny... It consisted of the princes..prelates, barons and knights.

1916 G. E. Slocombe Poland ix. 85 Their [sc. the nobles'] first step was to obtain a revival of the sejm or general Diet of Poland.

1920 C. R. Ballard Russia ii. 45 The worst curse of Poland was its aristocracy. The constitution was a limited monarchy, but all power was really in the Seym or House of Lords.

1921 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 77/2 Poland had set out to elect a provisional Seym or Parliament.

1924 A. E. Tennant Stud. Polish Life & Hist. ix. 162 The new Sejm is a democratic assembly in which all classes are represented.

1928 Spectator 10 Mar. 346/2 When he seized political power the Seym was so divided as to be incapable of any good work.

1934 E. J. Patterson Poland iii. 83 Under the constitution the powers of the Seym were very great... In case of a disagreement between the two houses the Senate could be over-ridden by a majority of 11/20 in the Seym, in ordinary session.

1959 Z. Pelczynski in D. E. Butler et al. Elections Abroad ii. 125 The Sejm had been evolving and adapting itself to the policy of ‘democratisation’.

1981 Financial Times 13 Jan. 1/3 It will be discussed at a special Polish Communist Party congress this spring, then go for approval to the Sejm (Parliament).