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Interlocutory adj.

Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational. "Interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures."

(Law) Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action; as, an interlocutory judgement. Note: An order, sentence, decree, or judgment, given in an intermediate stage between the commencement and termination of a cause, is called interlocutory.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Interlocutory" Quotes from Famous Books

... far out of danger of a pursuit and a rescue. Durie's horse was pricked forward at a speed not inconsistent with his power of keeping the saddle. They stopped at no baiting place, but kept pushing forward, while the silence was still maintained, or, if it ever was broken, it was to introduce, by interlocutory snatches of conversation, some reference to the doom which awaited the unhappy judge. The darkness in which he was muffled, the speed of his journey, the sounds and menaces that had met his ear, all co-operating with the ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton

... to have been, that his Lordship had intended to continue the business of the Court in exactly the same way in which it had been conducted by Mr. Justice Fry; but he had been informed that he would have to take the interlocutory business of Mr. Justice Kay's Court whilst his Lordship was on Circuit; and, as it was requisite that he should take his own interlocutory business before the causes set down for hearing, "ALL THE CAUSES IN THE TWO COURTS MUST GO TO THE WALL"!!! His Lordship added, that it would be necessary ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

... humble requests for grace at the merciful hands of God to perform the thing which is commanded; or when they wish reciprocally each other's ghostly happiness, or when he by exhortation raiseth them up, and they by protestation of their readiness declare he speaketh not in vain unto them; these interlocutory forms of speech, what are they else, but most effectual, partly testifications, and ...

— The Prayer Book Explained • Percival Jackson

Words linked to "Interlocutory" : dialogue, interlocutory injunction