interlocutory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=ter=loc=u=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

interlocutory, a. [Cf. LL. interlocutorius, F. interlocutoire.].

•  Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational.  [1913 Webster]

  "Interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures."  [1913 Webster]
•  Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action; as, an interlocutory judgement.  [1913 Webster]

  " An order, sentence, decree, or judgment, given in an intermediate stage between the commencement and termination of a cause, is called interlocutory."  [1913 Webster]

interlocutory, n. [Cf. F. interlocutoire.].

 Interpolated discussion or dialogue.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

interlocutory, adj.
1 of dialogue or conversation.
2 Law (of a decree etc.) given provisionally in a legal action.

Etymology

med.L interlocutorius (as INTERLOCUTOR)

THESAURUS

interlocutory

arbitrational, arbitrative, chatty, chitchatty, colloquial, coming between, communicative, confabulatory, conversational, cozy, going between, intercessional, intercessory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate, intermediatory, intervening, interventional, mediating, mediative, mediatorial, mediatory, mesne, middle, pacificatory

ROGET THESAURUS

interlocutory

Conversation

N conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.