Definition of "prorogue"

prorogue

/pɹə(ʊ)ˈɹəʊɡ/

verb
third-person singular simple present prorogues, present participle proroguing, simple past and past participle prorogued
1. (transitive) To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session.
  Quotations
  On 9 September, when Parliament was prorogued until 14 October [later reversed by the Supreme Court], spelling the end of 12 pieces of legislation, it emerged that the High Speed Rail (West Midlands-Crewe) Bill was one of only three bills which will be carried over into the new parliamentary session.
  2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9
2. (transitive, now rare) To defer.
3. (obsolete) To prolong or extend.
  Quotations
  Mirth […] prorogues life, whets the wit, makes the body young, lively, and fit for any manner of employment.
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv
  The King settled to prorogue Parliament until the Christmas holidays, and to do nothing else for the present.
  1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business‎