interrogate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INTER'ROGATE, verb transitive [Latin interrogo; inter and rogo, to ask.] To question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. INTER'ROGATE, verb intransitive To ask questions.
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