Interlocutory

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  • adjective. Determining a matter during the course of a case and not part of a final decision.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting in or partaking of the character of dialogue; pertaining to, characterized by, or participating in conversation; conversational: as, interlocutory instruction; an interlocutory encounter.
  • Spoken intermediately; interjected into the main course of speech; specifically, in law, uttered or promulgated incidentally; not determinative or final in purport: as, an interlocutory argument; an interlocutory order, decree, or judgment (that is, one relating to a particular question or point in a case, but not to the final issue).
  • In law, intermediately transacted; taking place apart from the main course of a cause.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational.
  • adjective. Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action.
  • noun. Interpolated discussion or dialogue.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to dialogue or conversation.
  • adjective. Interjected into something spoken.
  • adjective. Expressed during a legal action that awaits final decision.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to legal action that is temporary or provisional.
  • noun. A person engaged in a conversation, an interlocutor.
  • noun. Interpolated discussion or dialogue.
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  • adjective. consisting of dialogue
  • Word Usage
    "The discourse in interlocutory; as Peter in the foregoing chapter, so Thomas, and Philip, and Jude, in this interposed their thoughts upon what he said, according to the liberty he was pleased to allow them."
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