Both Uses of
adjourn
in
Bleak House
- …was made to the Lord Chancellor on Richard's behalf as an infant and a ward, and I don't know what, and that there was a quantity of talking, and that the Lord Chancellor described him in open court as a vexatious and capricious infant, and that the matter was adjourned and readjourned, and referred, and reported on, and petitioned about until Richard began to doubt (as he told us) whether, if he entered the army at all, it would not be as a veteran of seventy or eighty years of age.†
Chpt 22-24
- Therefore we three adjourned to the apprentices together, and I made one in the dance.†
Chpt 37-39 *
Definition:
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(adjourn) take a break or close a formal meeting or gathering