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▪ I. ˈcross-ˈquestion, n.
[Orig. two words: cf. cross a. 1, cross- 9.]
a. A question put by way of cross-examination.
†b. A question on the other side; a question in return.
a1694Tillotson Serm. lxxv. (1748) V. 1191 Now that this question is answered, one might methinks ask him a cross question or two. 1705Farquhar Twin Rivals iv. i, Have you witnesses?.. Produce him..But you shall engage first to ask him no cross questions. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 269 Chatting with her on the way, and endeavouring, by cross-questions..to elicit some information.
c. cross-questions and crooked answers: a game of questions and answers in which a ludicrous effect is produced by connecting questions and answers which have nothing to do with one another; as e.g. the question of one's neighbour on the right with the answer given to another question by one's neighbour on the left.
1742J. Yarrow Love at First Sight 2 As if you had been playing at cross-Questions. 1884Illust. Lond. News Christmas No. 22/1 ‘I'm afraid, doctor, we are playing at cross-questions and crooked answers.’
▪ II. ˌcross-ˈquestion, v.
[cross- 6.]
trans. To interrogate with questions which cross, or tend to check the results of, previous questions, so as to test the consistency and completeness of an account; to question closely or minutely; to cross-examine.
1760Foote Minor i. Wks. 1799 I. 234 You will find, by cross-questioning him, whether he is a competent person. 1887Jessopp Arcady iii. 67 There are moments when the desire to question and cross-question the vanished dead becomes a passionate longing.
Hence ˌcross-ˈquestioning vbl. n.; ˌcross-ˈquestionable a., capable of being cross-questioned.
a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 8 When on his ranks together spring Cross-buttocks and cross-questioning! 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 104 He was submitted to the closest cross-questionings, in the hope that he would commit himself. 1884J. Hawthorne Pearl-Shell Necklace I. 48 There was nothing cross-questionable in such an old-wives' tale. |