Though somewhat , he was extremely solicitous about his . (1) Abrogate, arrogate, interrogate, arrogant, derogatory, prerogative; (2) surrogate, rogation, prorogue.

It is said, in the Book of Numbers, that Eleazar, the successor of Aaron, shall interrogate Urim in form, and that a resolution shall be taken according to the answer given.

"I felt myself on the wrong tack, and hastened to interrogate him respecting his relations with our adversaries.

Previously to doing this, however, he saw fit to interrogate him a little further.

"Do you see any reason why Mr. Tutt shouldn't interrogate the witness?" "Oh, let me qualify my own witness!" retorted O'Brien fretfully.

One day, when we were dining at General Oglethorpe's, where we had many a valuable day, I ventured to interrogate him.

" Were Locke still living, I should like to interrogate him at this place.

(b) After discarding the above "idols" we must interrogate nature; must collect facts by means of numerous experiments, arrange them in order, and then determine the law that underlies them.

"Interrogate my son upon some of his recent lessons in history," said she to the tutor, who was not at all loth to show his own attainments by the brilliancy of his pupil.

The social idea cannot be realised under any form whatsoever before this reorganisation of Europe is effected; before the peoples are free to interrogate themselves, to express their vocation, and to assure its accomplishment by an alliance capable of substituting itself for the absolute league which now reigns supreme.

Should anyone else interrogate you do not breathe a word of this letter.

Mr. Boswell staid awhile to interrogate her, because he understood her language; she told him, that she and her cat lived together; that she had two sons somewhere, who might, perhaps, be dead; that, when there were quality in the town, notice was taken of her, and that now she was neglected, but did not trouble them.

Half awake, I descended to the street in time to interrogate two soldiers passing in the rear.

She ventured to interrogate her new master, but he slapped her on the back and sent her away to her kitchen-stove.

By the opposition to his thought of inert and defiant custom, the thinker is compelled to interrogate his consciousness more deeply and sacredly; and being cut off from that sympathy which has its foundation in similarity of temperaments and traditions, he must fall back with simpler abandonment upon the pure idea, and must seek responses from that absolute nature of man which the men of his time are not human enough to afford him.

The court itself appears to have been of this opinion, inasmuch as no notice was given to General Jesup of the pendency of the proceedings, nor had he any opportunity to cross-examine and interrogate the witnesses, nor to be heard in respect to his conduct in the matter remarked on by the court.

Chapter Fifteen Galen Albret had chosen to interrogate his recaptured prisoner alone.

'Well, what law is it that chooses so worthy an organ?''I am here to learn your age, your pursuits, and to interrogate you as to your journey to Coblentz.'

To teach is to tell things to persons, or to instruct persons in things; to ask is to request or demand things of or from persons, or to interrogate or solicit persons about or for things.

2. By the adding of ive or ory: (sometimes with a change of some of the final letters:) as, elect, elective; interrogate, interrogative, interrogatory; defend, defensive; defame, defamatory; explain, explanatory.

and she was not so much seeking to interrogate me as she was groping blindly for some chance word of mine that might illuminate her doubts.

The marvel is that with material at their command, with friends of their victim to interrogate, and sometimes even with a personal knowledge of him, they can yet contrive to avoid telling one anything interesting or characteristic.

So, those are to be envied, whose inner consciousness knows how to interrogate the mysteries of the ocean, those spirits who rise from its moving surface to the heights of heaven.

" "But what are they?" asked Dick Sand, who made it like a law of conscience to interrogate and make the American speakwho, however, never required pressing before replying.

In a few days I'll interrogate my memory, like Wordsworth, and see if there is anything of permanent worth there!" XLVIII OF AMBIGUITY Father Payne had been listening to some work of mine: and he said at the end, "That is graceful enough, and