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(idea) by Segnbora-t (47.6 min) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Nov 04 2002 at 20:37:07

"Inquorate" is an adjective used to describe a meeting, legislative session, etc. that doesn't have enough people in attendance to get anything valid done by its own rules; in other words, it doesn't have a quorum. Inquorate and its opposite, quorate, are relatively recent coinages; the Oxford English Dictionary records neither before 1969, though the Latin borrowing "quorum" has been used in English since the 1400s. However, "inquorate" seems to be a convenient word to use in summaries of the minutes of meetings; a scan of the Google search results for the word reveals a high percentage of .uk domain names, with a sprinkling of .au and .za, so perhaps the word has not caught on among the meeting-holders of the United States yet.

Sources:
http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0902
http://dictionary.oed.com
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/402412


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Quorum George Washington's 1794 State of the Union Address Unmorrised Brian Eno
Caudate Attendance valid Latin
session meeting
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