Session
['seʃ(ə)n] or ['sɛʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a meeting devoted to a particular activity; 'a filming session'; 'a gossip session'.
(noun.) a meeting for execution of a group's functions; 'it was the opening session of the legislature'.
Editor: Miriam--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
(n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
(n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
Edited by Christine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sitting (of a court, of a legislature, &c.).
Checker: Wyatt
Definition
n. the sitting of a court or public body: the time it sits: the period of time between the meeting and prorogation of Parliament: the act of sitting esp. the enthronement of Christ at the right hand of God the Father: (Scot.) the lowest Presbyterian church court the kirk-session.—adj. Ses′sional pertaining or belonging to a session or sessions.—n. Ses′sion-clerk the official who officially records the transactions of a kirk-session.—Court of Session the supreme civil court of Scotland.
Editor: Maureen
Examples
- Not a word had been spoken during the present session on any of these topics. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Near the close of the short session of Congress of 1844-5, the bill for the annexation of Texas to the United States was passed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I can listen at the end of the session, not a moment before. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through, uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In the session of 1804 the Legislature rescinded its latest act in regard to the gin, and testified to its high opinion of Whitney. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Early in the session of the Congress which met in December, 1839, a bill was discussed abolishing the Military Academy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Upon the firing on Sumter President Lincoln issued his first call for troops and soon after a proclamation convening Congress in extra session. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mentioning Colonel Onslow reminds me of something that passed at the beginning of this session in the house between him and Mr. Grenville. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The legislature was in session at the time, however, and came to his relief. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He remained until the session closed, and yours was the last bill but one acted upon, and it was passed just five minutes before the adjournment. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Yes; tell him at the end of the session. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was in London, if not for the Parliament session, at least in May, for the religious meetings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A part, though indeed but a small part of the salary of the judges of the court of session in Scotland, arises from the interest of a sum of money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the early evening of the last day of the session there were one hundred and nineteen bills to come to vote before his, and it seemed impossible that it should be taken up. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The first session of Congress held there was in 1800, while the building was still incomplete. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I read in th' papers every 'Sizes, every Sessions—and you read too—I know it! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was committed to take his trial at the next Sessions, which would come on in a month. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How should he, Nupkins, meet the eye of old Porkenham at the next quarter-sessions! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He wore a black frock-coat and grey suede gloves, which he never removed during these sessions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- How will you like going to Sessions with everybody looking shy on you, and you with a bad conscience and an empty pocket? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When the Sessions came round, Mr. Jaggers caused an application to be made for the postponement of his trial until the following Sessions. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Typist: Winfred