prorogation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=ro=ga=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

prorogation, n. [L. prorogatio: cf. F. prorogation.].

•  The act of counting in duration; prolongation.  South.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the sovereign.  [1913 Webster]

  " After an adjournment all things continue as they were at the adjournment; whereas, after a prorogation, bill introduced and nut passed are as if they had never been begun at all."  Mozley & W.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

prorogation

Lateness

N lateness, tardiness, delay, delation, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, deferral, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution, protraction, prolongation, Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case, leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover, late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely, delayed, postponed, dilatory, delayed, in abeyance, late, lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure, ex post facto, sine die, nonum prematur in annum, against the sunbeams serotine and lucent, ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio.