Word Meanings - READJOURN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.

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• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• SECOND-CLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• SECONDER
  One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
• SECONDLY
  In the second place.
• SECOND-SIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• ADJOURNAL
  Adjournment; postponement. "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.
• SECOND-SIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.
• ADJOURNMENT
  1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. 2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
• SECONDHAND
  1. Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke. 2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment. At second hand. See Hand, n., 10.
• SECONDARY
  Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation , in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary. (more info) 1. Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.;
• SECOND-RATE
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.
• AGAINBUY
  To redeem. Wyclif.
• SECONDARINESS
  The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant.
• SECONDO
  The second part in a concerted piece.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• READJOURN
  To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• THIRTY-SECOND
  Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note , the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.