interrogatories

Noun

interrogatory (plural interrogatories)

1. A formal question or set of questions submitted to opposing party to answer, generally governed by court rule.
   • Sidney interposed with an interrogatory concerning the legality of the evidence1763-1783, Catharine Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
2. A question; an interrogation.
   • But when he found that some of his interrogatories were evaded, and others answered undecisively, the look of gentleness which he had assumed, vanished, and his brow wore the cloud of disappointment and of anger.1798, Eleanor Sleath, The Orphan of the Rhine

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