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interrogatory, a. and n.|ɪntəˈrɒgətərɪ|
[ad. late L. interrogātōri-us: see interrogate v. and -ory. Cf. F. interrogatoire (1422 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A. adj. = interrogative a. interrogatory point (see interrogation 2 b).
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. To Rdr. ⁋v b, Of letters..Interrogatori, Dehortatorie..there be sundrie sortes. a1668Davenant Masque Wks. (1673) 362 My Priviledges are an ubiquitary..interrogatory..immunity over all the privy lodgings. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 407 Of the Interrogatory point. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xlii, Hinted at in a mild interrogatory manner.
B. n.
1. An interrogation, a question; spec. in Law: A question formally put, or drawn up in writing to be put, to an accused person or a witness. (In 16–17th c. freq. in phr. to examine upon interrogatories). See also intergatory.
1533in More Apol. xlv. Wks. 915/1 If he can by interrogatories and questions be drieuen to confesse anye thing. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 42 He was..examined vpon interrogatories to bewraye the rest of the conspiratours. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. xxxv. 265 He willed me to examine myself well upon this one Interrogatory. 1681Nevile Plato Rediv. 106 A more pertinent Interrogatory could never have been made by Plato, or Aristotle. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 177 ⁋3, I was bewildered by an unseasonable interrogatory. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 562 A paper of interrogatories was laid before him by order of the Privy Council. 1898Encycl. Laws Eng. (Renton) VII. 41 The Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, for the first time enabled interrogatories to be administered in actions in the superior Courts of Law.
2. Examination or questioning (of an accused person). rare. [= F. interrogatoire, It. interrogatorio.]
1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. i. 55 A tribunal..proceeding by modes of interrogatory unknown to the common law. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. xiv. (1845) 320 If the parties accused still confessed themselves Christians upon the third interrogatory, he ordered them to be put to death.
Hence inteˈrrogatorily adv. = interrogatively.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar ii. xviii. 242 We..propose it in Baptisme interrogatorily unto God-fathers and God-mothers. c1866E. Burritt Descr. Locomotive, And now he shouts, interrogatorily, All right? |