prorogue Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb hold back to a later time
    set back; defer; remit; put off; put over; shelve; table; postpone; hold over.
    • let's postpone the exam
  2. verb adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body

WordNet

Pro*rogue" transitive verb
Etymology
F. proroger, L. prorogare, prorogatum; pro forward + rogare to ask, to ask one for his opinion or vote, or about a law. See Rogation.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Prorogued ; present participle & verbal noun Proroguing
Definitions
  1. To protract; to prolong; to extend. Obs.
    He prorogued his government. Dryden.
  2. To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage. Shak.
  3. 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.
    Syn. -- To adjourn; postpone; defer. See Adjourn.

Webster 1913