"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