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cross-question en · NOUN
Etymology
From cross- + question.
Meanings
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A question posed during a cross-examination.
Forms
Translations (1)
ga croscheist (a question performed during a cross-examination)
cross-question en · VERB
Etymology
From cross- + question.
Meanings
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(transitive) To subject to close questioning.
the best way to get things clear is if we gently cross-question this very statement.
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 237b:The good man, he looks on us so clear and cheery, and in his neighbourly soft-smiling eyes we see so well our own shadow, - we have a longing always to cross-question him.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
Forms
Translations (3)
eo pridemandi (to subject to close questioning) · ga croscheistigh (to subject to close questioning) · cy croesholi (to subject to close questioning)