Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Adjourn

Once written ajorn. French, à-journer, to put off to another day.

“He ajorned tham to relie in the North of Garlele.”

—Longtoft: Chronicle, p.309.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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