The Word, 04/04
2009 April 4
In which I display my astonishing lexical ignorance and chronicle my pursuit of an expanded functional vocabulary.
Prorogue, verb. Transitive: defer, postpone. Intransitive: to suspend or end a legislative session.
Context: Through edicts and bulls, inquisitions and excommunications, the church has attempted to prorogue truth and place an impenetrable stone wall in the path of the truth-seeker (Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981. p. 15).
In a sentence:
The cow attempted to prorogue its imminent execution by expelling a powerful release of flatus into the face of the closest farmer.
