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«=-His proof will be retorted by interrogating. Shall the 
adulterer and the drunkard inherit the kingdom of God ? 
Hammond. 
INTERROGATING, f. The ait of afking queftions; 
examining by queftions. 
INTERROGATION, f. The ait of queftioning. A 
queftion put; an enquiry.—How demurely foever fuch 
men may pretend to fanitity, that interrogation of God 
prelfes hard upon them, Shall I count them pure with the 
■wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights ? 
Government of the Tongue.—A note that marks a queftion ; 
thus ? as, Does Job ferve God for nought ? 
INTERROG'ATIVE, adj. Denoting a queftion ; ex- 
prefted in a queftionary form of words. 
INTERROG'ATIVE, /. A pronoun ufed in alking 
queftions.— Who, which , what, are called interrogative!, when 
they are ufed in afking queftions. Lewtk. 
INTERROG'ATIVELY, adv. In form of a queftion. 
INTERROGATOR, /. An afker of queftions. 
INTERROG'ATORY, adj. Containing a queftion ; 
exprefling a queftion ; as, an interrogatory fentence. 
INTERROG'ATORY,/ A queftion ; an enquiry.— 
He with no more civility began in captious manner to 
put interrogatories unto him. Sidney. —The examination 
was fummed up with one queftion, Whether he was pre¬ 
pared for death ? The boy was frighted out of his wits 
by the laft dreadful interrogatory. Addifon. 
Nor time nor place 
Will ferve long interrogatories. Shakcfpeare. 
What earthly name to interrogatories 
Can talk the free breath of a facred king ? Shakcfpeare. 
Interrogatories, in law, are particular queftions de¬ 
manded of witneffes brought in to be examined in acaufe, 
especially in the court of chancery. And thefe interro¬ 
gatories muft be exhibited by the parties in fuit on each 
fide ; which are either direft, for the party that produces 
them, or counter, on behalf of the adverfe party; and ge¬ 
nerally both plaintiff and defendant may exhibit direft, 
and counter, or crofs, interrogatories. They are to be 
pertinent, and only to the points neceffary ; and either 
drawn or perufed by counfel, and to be figned by them. 
If a contempt be committed in the face of the court, 
the offender may be inftantly apprehended and imprifoned 
at the diferetion of the judges, without any farther proof 
or examination. Staundf. P. C. 73. b. In matters arifing 
at a diftance, the court generally grant a rule to (haw 
caufe why an attachment ftiould not iffue; or, in very fla¬ 
grant inftances of contempt, an attachment iftues in the 
firft inftance. Salk. 84. Sira. 185, 564.. This procefs is in¬ 
tended to bring the party into court, and when there he 
muft.either Hand committed or put in bail, in order to 
anfwer fuch interrogatories as fhall be adminiltered to him 
for the information of the court. Thefe interrogatories are 
in the nature of a charge or accufation ; and, if the party 
can clear hirnfelf upon oath, he is difeharged; but, if per¬ 
jured, may be profecuted for the perjury. 6 Mod 73. If 
the contempt be of fuch a nature, that, when the fact is 
once acknowledged, the court can receive no farther in¬ 
formation by interrogatories than it is already poffeffed 
of (as in cafe of a refeue), the defendant may be admitted 
to make fuch Ample acknowledgment, and receive his 
judgment without anfwering to any interrogatories ; but 
refilling to anfwer, or anfwering evafively, is punilhable 
as a high and repeated contempt. 4 Comm 287. c. 20. 
With regard to this Angular mode of trial, thus admit¬ 
ted in this one particular inftance, and fo contrary to the 
genius of the common law in any other, it may be fuffi- 
cient to obferve, that, as the procefs by attachment in 
general appears to be extremely ancient, (K. B. 20 Hen. VI. 
37. 22 Edw. IV. 29 ;) and has, in more modern times, 
been recognifed, approved, and connrmed, by feveral ex- 
-prefs afts of parliament; fo the method of examining the 
delinquent upon oath with regard to the contempt alleged 
is at leak of as high antiquity j and, by long and imme- 
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morial ufage, is now become the law of the land. $Cmm. 
288. c. zo. It has been remarked, that the admiflion of 
the party to purge himfelf by oath is more'favourable to 
his liberty, though perhaps not lefs dangerous to his con.- 
fcience.. Some declamation has alfo been ufed againft the 
temptation to perjury afforded by this proceeding; this 
latter, however, is an argument which can never affeft 
the cafe of any honeft man. 
To INTERRUPT, v. a. [interrompre , Fr. interrupts , 
Lat.] To hinder the procefs of'any thing by breaking in 
upon it.—Pie might fecurely enough have engaged his body 
of horfe againft their whole inconftderabie army, there be¬ 
ing neither tree nor bufh to interrupt his charge. Clarendon. 
Rage doth rend 
Like interrupted waters, and o’erbear 
What they are ufed to bear. , Shakefpeare. 
To hinder one from proceeding by interpofttion.—An¬ 
fwer not before thou haft heard the caufe; neither interrupt 
men in the midlt of their talk. Ecclef. xi. 8.—To divide j 
to feparate ; to refeind from continuity. 
INTERRUPT, adj. Containing a chafm ; 
Seeft thou what rage 
Tranfports our adverfgry, whom no bounds, 
Nor yet the main abyfs wide interrupt. 
Can hold ? Milton. 
INTERRUPTEDLY, adv. Not in continuity; not 
without ftoppages.—The incident light, that meets with a 
grofler liquor, will, have its beams either refracted or im¬ 
bibed, or elfe reflected more or lefs interruptedly than they 
would be, if the body had been unmoiftened. Boyle. 
INTERRUPTEDLY-PIN'NATE, adj. in botany, 
having l'malier leaflets or fegments between each pair of 
larger ones. See the article Botany, vol. iii. 
INTERRUPTER, / Pie who interrupts. 
INTERRUPTING, / The aft of hindering, or ob- 
ftrufting by interpofttion. 
INTERRUPTION, / Interpofttion; breach of con¬ 
tinuity.—Places fevered from the continent by the inter¬ 
ruption of the fea. Hale. —Intervention ; interpofttion.— 
You are to touch the one as foon as you have given a 
ftroke of the pencil to the other, left the interruption of 
time caufe you to lofe the idea of one part. Dryden. —Hin¬ 
drance; (lop; let; obftruction: 
Bloody England into England gone, 
O’erbearing interruption, fpite of France. Shakefpeare. 
Intermiflion.—This way of thinking on what we read, 
will be a rub only in the beginning; when cuftom has 
made it familiar, it will be diipatched without refting or 
interruption in the courfe of our reading. Locke. 
IN PERSCAP'ULAR, adj. [inter and fcapula, Lat.J 
Placed between the fhoulders. 
INTERSCAPULARIA, /. plu. The cavities between 
the (houl Jer-blades and the vertebrae of the back-bone. 
INTERSCAPULARIUM, / The procefs of the 
fhouluer- blade. Phillips. 
INTERSCI’DENT, adj. [from inter, Lat. between, and * 
feindo, to cut.] To cut off, to cut off by interpofttion. 
Not ufed. 
To INTERSCIND', v. a. [ inter and feindo, Lat.] To 
cut off by interruption. 
To INTERSCRI'BE, v. a. [inter and ferilo, Lat.] To 
write between. 
INTERSCRI'BING,/! The aft of writing between. 
IN'TERSCRIPT, J. An interlineation. Cole. 
INTERSCRIPTION,/! An interlineation. Scott. 
INTERSE'CANT, adj [from inter, Lat. between, and 
feco, to cut ] Dividing into parts. 
INTERSE'CANT, / [from the adj.] In heraldry, one 
line crofting another. 
To INTERSECT, v. a. [interfcco, Lat.] To cut 5 to 
divide each other mutually.—Perfect and viviparous qua¬ 
drupeds fo ftand in their pofition of pronenefs, that the 
oppolite joints of neighbour-legs conftft in the fame plane; 
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