Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A prolonged session, as for discussion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun There sat: a word used in minutes of the meetings of courts and other bodies in noting that such and such members were present and composed the meeting: as, sederunt A. B., C. D., etc. (that is, there sat or were present A. B., C. D., etc.).
- noun n. A single sitting or meeting of a court; also, a more or less formal meeting or sitting of any association, society, or company of men.
- noun A Scotch statute of 1692 relating to the formalities of publicity in conveying lands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sitting, as of a court or other body.
- noun (Scots Law) ordinances of the Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland A formal
meeting , especially of a judicial or ecclesiastical body. - noun Scotland Those people present at such a meeting.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Ballot Question — oldest of dialectic nightmares — is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt.
Lay Morals 2005
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Et sederunt coram eo primogenitus secundum primogenituram suam, et parvus juxta parvitatem suam: et admirati sunt viri unusquisque ad proximum suum.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Postea sederunt ut comederent panem, et levaverunt oculos suos, et viderunt, et ecce turba Ismaelitarum veeniebat de Gilhad, et cameli eorum portabant aromata, et resinam, et stacten, iter facientes ut deferrent in Aegyptum.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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For a time she bustled round him, with all her vexation gone, saying nothing of his sederunt with her brothers.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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Baron showed no disinclination to conclude their somewhat dull sederunt and consent to an early retirement.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Quia illic sederunt sedes in judicio, sedes super domum David.
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No, no, not quite all, said Pleydell, winking sagaciously; there are some interrogatories which I shall delay till to-morrow, for it is time, I believe, to close the sederunt for this night, or rather morning.
Chapter L 1917
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They held a sederunt, and were filled with tremulous joy, for, in spite of their familiarity with all the other worlds and cycles, they had a very human awe of things sent from Ghost-land.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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They held a sederunt, and were filled with tremulous joy, for, in spite of their familiarity with all the other worlds and cycles, they had a very human awe of things sent from Ghost-land.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It would have formed an amusement to the circle at Merton, if intemperance were set down to the master of the house, who always so prematurely cut short the sederunt of the gentlemen after dinner.
The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897
whichbe commented on the word sederunt
A prolonged sitting (as for discussion).
May 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word sederunt
The smallest seat in any given meeting room.
January 15, 2013