American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially.
- n. The performer in a minstrel show who is placed midway between the end men and engages in banter with them.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who speaks in a dialogue or takes part in a conversation.
- n. In Scots law, a judgment or sentence pronounced in the course of a suit, but which does not finally determine the cause. The term, however, in Scotch practice, is applied indiscriminately to the judgments or orders of any court of record, whether they exhaust the question at issue or not.
- n. In negro minstrelsy, the middleman. See middleman, 4.
- n. Scotland, law A decree of a court.
- n. A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation.
- n. A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the end men and acts as leader.
- n. law An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner.
- n. (Law) An interlocutory judgment or sentence.
- n. the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
- n. a person who takes part in a conversation
- From French interlocutoire, from Latin interlocūtōrium. (Wiktionary)
“He hisses at him for being a "banker" (sounds like wanker, get it?) and pulls him up for using the term interlocutor twice (this from the man who brought you indefatigability).”
“Two such massive egotists on stage without a disciplinary interlocutor is always a risk: Sinclair begins by claiming that he may have invented Home as a character, or at least some of his ‘psychogeographical’ writings.”
“The meme our illustrious interlocutor is faultily remembering is “information wants to be free.””
“Nowadays if you meet a German of a certain age, their families always voted Social Democrat before 1933, they themselves always served on the Western Front (if their interlocutor is Russian or Polish) or the Eastern Front (if you are British or American) and they always surrendered as soon as they could and they never, ever knew about the Holocaust.”
“Instead, the interlocutor is saying that the author was himself anti-Catholic, and therefore all of his writings are to be avoided.”
“A true interlocutor is willing to accept some level of burden.”
“But you are not always in possession of all the information, and no matter how disprespectful your interlocutor is you oughtn’t treat their manner as a reason to disregard their recommendations, dismiss their intentions, or ignore their qualifications.”
“That said, do you find, in your own experience, that insulting your interlocutor is the best way to convince them of your own point of view?”
“Attacking the intellectual capacity of your interlocutor is a cheap rhetorical device that is useful as a last resort when one has run out of substantive arguments.”
“His interlocutor was a big, rugby playing fellow who immediately observed 'don't you worry, we know about terrorism from the Provos'.”
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