• Sederunt

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /sɪˈdɪəɹənt/

    Origin

    From Latin sederunt ("there were sitting").

    Full definition of sederunt

    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.
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