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Feb. 15, 2017
sine die\SAHY-nee DAHY-ee, SIN-ey-DEE-ey\adverb
1. without fixing a day for future action or meeting: The assembly
adjourned sine die.
Quotes... the fates were against Mrs. Jupp, and the meeting between my
hero and his former landlady was postponed sine die ...
-- Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
Origin of sine dieSine die without a day (set for resuming
business) is not a technical term in Roman law, political procedure,
or religion; it is a Latin phrase used nearly exclusively in modern
legislative and corporate procedure. The phrase entered English in the
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