PROROGUE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To protract; to prolong; to extend. [Obs.] He prorogued his government. Dryden.

2.
v.

To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage. Shak.

3.
v.

To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business. Parliament was prorogued to [meet at] Westminster. Bp. Hall. The Parliament was again prorogued to a distant day. Macaulay.

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