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Quotation dates: 1576-1601, 1678-1700+
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Interrogat, -att, -ate, p.p. and v. [e.m.E. interrogate (1600–9), L. interrogātus.]
1. p.p. Interrogated, questioned.(a) 1576 Digest Justiciary Proc. I. 24.
Being interrogat how scho knew the same 1600–1 State P. (Reg. H.) No. 108/10; 29.
George Lamb … being interrogat giff he saw Johne Lamb … in the toun 1686 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 35.
Being interrogat hou [= who] gave him the wound in his head 1687 Ib. 115.
She knowes nothing of the matter interogat att her 1709 Misc. Spald. C. V. 233.
Being interrogat thervpon … [he] did decleare that he had receaved seaven or eight boords(b) 1683 Logie Par. Hist. I. 126.
The minister is interrogate if the place be sufficiently provided in stipend and pasturage 1704 Salmon Borrowstounness 120.
Anna Wood … was interrogate what envye she had at Robert Nimmo 1754 Nairne Peerage Evidence (1843) 63.
The said claimant being … interrogate upon the verity of the said debt
2. infin. To interrogate. 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. ii. xxvi. § 16.
Advocats are to be present, that they may interrogat upon emergents
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