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Definition of Interpellate
1. Verb. Question formally about policy or government business.
Definition of Interpellate
1. v. t. To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body.
Definition of Interpellate
1. Verb. (obsolete) To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something). ¹
2. Verb. (philosophy) To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate). ¹
3. Verb. (transitive chiefly politics) To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Interpellate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interpellate
Literary usage of Interpellate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1878)
"... on the Resolution—The Resolution carried—The Senate interpellate the
Government—Government Triumph in the Senate—The Dc Brogue Ministry resign—The New ..."
2. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1910)
"Committee on Interpellations of Duma decides to interpellate Premier Stolypin
... Extreme Right decide to interpellate Government on permission extended to ..."
3. The two books on the water supply of the city of Rome of Sextus Julius by Sextus Julius Frontinus, Clemens Herschel (1899)
"... exposita. uitia autem eiusmodi sunt, ut aut non interpellate cursu ...
desit aqua ciuitati. ea quae non interpellate aquae cursu effici debent, ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"2* Question, inquiry, interrogatory, query. ask, inquire of, put questions to,
interpellate. Interrogative, a. Interrogatory Interrogator, я. ..."
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