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Once written ajorn. French, à-journer, to put off to another day.
“He ajorned tham to relie in the North of Carlele.”—Longtoft: Chronicle, p. 309.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.