v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjourned p. pr. & vb. n. Adjourning ] [ OE. ajornen, OF. ajoiner, ajurner, F. ajourner; OF. a (L. ad) + jor, jur, jorn, F. jour, day, fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. Cf. Journal, Journey. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis a needful fitness
That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend. -- To Adjourn, Prorogue, Dissolve. These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjournment; postponement. [ R. ] “An adjournal of the Diet.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See Adjourn. ] 1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. à jour, open to day. ] of or pertaining to objects which are pierced or decorated with an openwork pattern. RHUD 1.3 [ PJC. ]

a. [ F., fr. L. diurnalis diurnal, fr. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. See Diurnal. ] Daily; diurnal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whiles from their journal labors they did rest. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. journal. See Journal, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A diary; an account of daily transactions and events. Specifically: (a) (Bookkeeping) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions. (b) (Naut.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc. (c) (Legislature) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk. (d) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.; a periodical; a magazine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey. [ Obs. & R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box. [ 1913 Webster ]

Journal box, or
Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the linguistic style in which newspapers are written. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. journalisme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The keeping of a journal or diary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals, newspapers, magazines, broadcasting media such as radio or television, or other news media such as distribution over the internet; as, political journalism; broadcast journalism; print journalism. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm. Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The branch of knowledge that studies phenomena associated with news collection, distribution, and editing; a course of study, especially in institutions of higher learning, that teaches students how to write, edit, or report news. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. journaliste. ] 1. One who keeps a journal or diary; a diarist. [ Obs. ] Mickle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One whose occupation is to write for any of the public news media, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, or internet; also, an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Pertaining to journals, journalism, or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as, journalistic literature or enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Journalized p. pr. & vb. n. Journalizing ] To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to conduct or contribute to a public journal; to follow the profession of a journalist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Journeys [ OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See Journal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The travel or work of a day. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have yet large day, for scarce the sun
Hath finished half his journey. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time. [ 1913 Webster ]

The good man . . . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: [ figurative ], A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet.

4. The distance that is traveled in a journey{ 2 }, or the time taken to complete a journey{ 2 }; as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage; jaunt. -- Journey, Tour, Excursion, Pilgrimage. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Journeyed p. pr. & vb. n. Journeying. ] To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. Gen. xii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through. [ R. ] “I journeyed many a land.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worn out with journeying. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who journeys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of traveling from one place to another.
Syn. -- journey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Journeymen 1. Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination. [ PJC ]

n. 1. Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Routine or relatively unskilled work performed under direction of a supervisor. [ PJC ]

v. t. To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. réajourner. See Adjourn. ] To adjourn; to put off. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjournment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sojourned p. pr. & vb. n. Sojourning. ] [ OE. sojornen, sojournen, OF. sojorner, sejorner, F. séjourner, fr. L. sub under, about + diurnus belonging to the day. See Journal, Diurnal. ] To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. sujurn, sujur, sejor, F. séjour. See Sojourn, v. i. ] A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though long detained
In that obscure sojourn. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sojourns. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or state of one who sojourns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]