2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prorogation \Pro`ro*ga"tion\, n. [L. prorogatio: cf F.
prorogation.]
1. The act of counting in duration; prolongation. [Obs.]
--South.
2. The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of
Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command
of the sovereign. [Eng.]
Note: 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
prorogation
n : discontinuing the meetings (of a legislative body) without
dissolving it
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