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Webster 1913 Edition


Sederunt


Se-de′runt

,
Noun.
[L., they sat, fr.
sedere
to sit.]
A sitting, as of a court or other body.
’T is pity we have not Burns's own account of that long
sederunt
.
Prof. Wilson.
Acts of sederunt
(Scots Law)
,
ordinances of the Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice.
Bell.

Definition 2024


sederunt

sederunt

English

Noun

sederunt (plural sederunts)

  1. (Scotland) A formal meeting, especially of a judicial or ecclesiastical body.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Sending of Dana Da’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 421:
      They held a sederunt, and were filled with tremulous joy, for, in spite of their familiarity with all the other worlds and cycles, they had a very human awe of things sent from Ghostland.
    • Prof. Wilson
      'Tis pity we have not Burn's own account of that long sederunt.
  2. (Scotland) Those people present at such a meeting.

Anagrams


Latin

Verb

sēdērunt

  1. third-person plural perfect active indicative of sedeō

Scots

Noun

sederunt (uncountable)

  1. Those in attendance at a meeting.

Usage notes

Still commonly used formally throughout Scotland.