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- noun rare, dated A
female interrogator .
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Examples
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Even my own HRC interrogatrix, Shirlene McGovern, wanted to know what my “intentions” were behind publishing the cartoons – though the Alberta statute is as silent on intentions as is the federal one.
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Even my own HRC interrogatrix, Shirlene McGovern, wanted to know what my “intentions” were behind publishing the cartoons – though the Alberta statute is as silent on intentions as is the federal one.
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‘Do I think it may safely be contracted, solely to join two estates?’ repeated the old lady, with a look and carriage that plainly showed how entirely she appreciated the amazing presumption of her interrogatrix.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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Sumana, Sandili of sweet smiles, addressing her fair interrogatrix, thus answered her out of the hearing of others, I did not wear yellow robes; nor barks of trees.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Avichakshanam is undiscerning, in the sense of the husband's not knowing that the interrogatrix as wife, has no other refuge than her lord with all his defects.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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'Do I think it may safely be contracted, solely to join two estates?' repeated the old lady, with a look and carriage that plainly showed how entirely she appreciated the amazing presumption of her interrogatrix.
Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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The keystone cops are the investigators (like Shirlene McGovern, my interrogatrix in Calgary and prosecutors (like Giacomo "Serenity Now!"
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The keystone cops are the investigators (like Shirlene McGovern, my interrogatrix in Calgary and prosecutors (like Giacomo "Serenity Now!"
qms commented on the word interrogatrix
The fashion in our courtroom flicks
Is for lawyers who are comely chicks.
So looks get the part,
But smarts are the art
Of the cinematic interrogatrix.
October 22, 2015