Both Uses of
interrogate
in
Leaves of Grass
- The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of
the promenaders,
The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the
clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
The snow-sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow-balls,
The hurrahs for popular favorites, the fury of rous'd mobs,
The flap of the curtain'd litter, a sick man inside borne to the hospital,
The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his
passage to the centre of the crowd,
The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck†Chpt 3interrogating = asking a series of questions of someone
- To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
Why reclining, interrogating?†Chpt 20 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(interrogate) ask a series of questions of someone -- typically asked by law enforcement officials or by someone in an aggressive manner
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, interrogate can mean to submit a query (question) to a computer system.