Question

Sine die means ________________________________.
A)With a day being appointed
B)Without a day being appointed
C)With appointed time
D)Without a day being appointed

Answer 1

Hint: Sine die has been derived from Latin, where it literally means ‘without a day’. ‘Sine’ means without and ‘die’ means day.

Complete step-by-step answer:

As we already know from the hint, sine die is a word derived from Latin where it means, without a day. We can interpret that without a day means, no fixed time. We can observe that, Option A and Option C contradict our interpretation of the meaning of the word. Both the options have a fixed timing to them.
Thus, we rule out Options A and C to be possibly correct options.
Option B – ‘Without a day being ended’ signifies that a day is in continuation. Thus, it does have a fixed time to it partially. It signifies a time frame before 24 hours are completed. Hence, we can rule out Option B to be a possibly correct option.
Option D – ‘Without a day being appointed’ signifies no time has been appointed. We could also interpret it as no fixed time since there is no appointment of any time duration. Thus, we can conclude Option D to be the correct answer to the question.

Note: Sine Die is usually used to adjourn a process or an event, It is mostly used in the court of law to adjourn the proceedings and in the senate to adjourn the assembly.