rejourn

R1E1J8O1U1R1N1

verb

To adjourn; to put off.

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Meanings

verbrejourn (third-person singular simple present rejourns, present participle rejourning, simple past and past participle rejourned)

present singular third person rejourns · participle present rejourning · participle past rejourned · past rejourned

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo adjourn; to put off.

    You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.

    c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

Origin

Compare French réajourner. See adjourn.

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APA

rejourn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rejourn

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“rejourn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rejourn. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rejourn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rejourn.

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