Associations to the word «Interpellate»
Verb
Adverb
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Wiktionary
INTERPELLATE, verb. (obsolete) To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).
INTERPELLATE, 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).
INTERPELLATE, verb. (transitive) (chiefly politics) To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.
Dictionary definition
INTERPELLATE, verb. Question formally about policy or government business.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.