Interpellate

Word INTERPELLATE
Character 12
Hyphenation in ter pel late
Pronunciations /ɪn.ˈtɜɹ.pə.ˌleɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Interpellate"

What do we mean by interpellate?

To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).

To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate).

To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.

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The word "interpellate" in example sentences

Are You There God, It's Me Margaret engaged in hegemonic discourse that disrupted narratives of power; I gave the benefit of the doubt to the dumbass who thought "interpellate" and "interpolate" were synonyms; I gritted my teeth when an author dismissed the gendered meaning of "avuncular" as "deriv [ing] only from its etymology." ❋ Unknown (2009)

"interpellate" the PRIME MINISTER regarding his recent speech in ❋ Various (N/A)

We are in our house, and as you walk the commons, we speak to you, interpellate you, and you recognize in our call the voice you choose to follow. ❋ Daniel Lukes (2012)

The resulting spectacle of oppression is profound: students communicate symbolically the intellectual and cultural violence of the state's abdication of education, and the authorities, ridiculously, actually interpellate themselves. ❋ Sarah Amsler (2010)

This is, in effect, how British literature was utilized in India and elsewhere to interpellate Indian subjects with a uniquely British sensibility, and thus produce compliant colonial subjects under the ruse of spreading civilization. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Such princes fear nothing, and are never abashed; they are on familiar terms with the audience, and interpellate the bystanders, which was a sure cause of merriment, but not of good order. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

I was about condescendingly to interpellate him in my best ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)

And, while the little, laughing girls questioned them, in that mocking tone which girls, when they are in a troupe, assume ordinarily to interpellate boys, these smiled, and each one struck his chest which gave a metallic sound. ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)

"Let Granet interpellate us when he pleases -- In eight days, to-morrow, yes, to-day even, I am ready!" ❋ Jules Claretie (1876)

Leave to interpellate will certainly be asked for this afternoon. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

Evidently enough his plan was to let Mege interpellate and overthrow the ministry, for he did not fear him, and in his own estimation would afterwards simply have to stoop to pick up the fallen portfolios. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

We decide that either Louis Blanc or I will interpellate the Government as to the situation in Paris, if the present anxiety continues and no light is thrown upon the situation. ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)

Not that I prefer the fluidities of postmodern identities and their sometimes overwrought and annoying slippages, flaunted narcissisms and paranoid self-consciousnesses, but that I have always casually adhered to a measure of identity without having ever closed it off to whatever might interpellate, enrich or expand it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He recalled that when he wanted to interpellate Madrigal on the C-5 issue, she refused. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To take full advantage of the anticipated high expectations the public would have for an Aso administration, the ruling coalition's senior members discussed dissolving the lower house immediately after parties 'representatives interpellate the new prime minister on his or her policy speech between 1 and 3 Oct. Discussions initially focused on holding the the next general election either on 26 Oct, 2 ❋ Unknown (2008)

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