Usually means: Summon formally to answer charges.
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  1. interpellate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. interpellate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. interpellate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. interpellate: Vocabulary.com
  5. interpellate: Wordnik
  6. interpellate: Wiktionary
  7. interpellate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. interpellate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. interpellate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Interpellate, interpellate: Dictionary.com
  11. Interpellate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. interpellate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. interpellate: Rhymezone
  14. Interpellate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. interpellate: Free Dictionary
  16. interpellate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. interpellate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. interpellate: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. interpellate: A Word A Day

(Note: See interpellated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (interpellate)

verb:  (obsolete) To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).
verb:  (philosophy) 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).
verb:  (transitive, chiefly politics) To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.

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