cross-question
verbEtymology From cross- + question.
1
To subject to close questioning.
- The good man, he looks on us so clear and cheery, and in his neighbourly soft-smiling eyes we see so well our own shadow, - we have a longing always to cross-question him.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
- the best way to get things clear is if we gently cross-question this very statement.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 237b: