interpel

Latin interpello, from inter (“between”) + pellare, akin to pellere (“to drive”), compare French interpeller.

interpel (third-person singular simple present interpels, present participle interpelling, simple past and past participle interpelled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.

• interpellate

• “interpel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• pelretin