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time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be paid. Cowper.

The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.

The act of postponing, in sense 2. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who postpones.

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needfu…

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument.

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation. N. Biddle.

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.

The act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose. -- To go through. (a) To accomplish; as, to go thro…

Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.

pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.

To postpone. [Obs.] Fuller.

To postpone. [Obs.] Feltham.

To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak.

To put off to a distant time; to postpone. Shak.

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