Sederunt
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /sɪˈdɪəɹənt/
Origin
From Latin sederunt ("there were sitting").
Full definition of sederunt
Noun
sederunt
(plural sederunts)- (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.
- (Scotland) Those people present at such a meeting.