Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Without a day specified for a future meeting; indefinitely.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Without day: used in connection with an adjournment of an assembly, or of any business or cause, without any specified day or time for reassembling, or resuming the subject or business. When a prisoner is suffered to go sine die, he is practically discharged.
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- adverb
Without specifying adate (for afuture event );indefinitely .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without a date fixed (as of an adjournment)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin : Latin sine, without + Latin diē, ablative of diēs, day.]
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From the Latin sine ("without") + diē, the ablative singular of diēs ("a day"). Literally meaning "without a day".
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