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English
Etymology
From cross- + question.
Noun
cross-question (plural cross-questions)
- A question posed during a cross-examination.
Translations
Verb
cross-question (third-person singular simple present cross-questions, present participle cross-questioning, simple past and past participle cross-questioned)
- (transitive) To subject to close questioning.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):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.
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 237b:the best way to get things clear is if we gently cross-question this very statement.
Translations
to subject to close questioning