Colloquium vs Interlocution - What's the difference?
colloquium | interlocution |
A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
(legal) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
Discussion or conversation.
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As nouns the difference between colloquium and interlocution
is that colloquium is a colloquy; a meeting for discussion while interlocution is discussion or conversation.colloquium
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(en-noun)Usage notes
Note that while colloquial refers specifically to informal'' conversation, colloquy and colloquium refer instead to ''formal conversation.Quotations
* 1876 : Stephen Dowell, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England , I. 87. *: Writs were issued to London and the other towns principally concerned, directing the mayor and sheriffs to send to a colloquium at York two or three citizens with full power to treat on behalf of the community of the town.References
* ----interlocution
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(en noun)p. 304:
- [T]wo actors were introduced to sustain fictitious characters and carry on a dialogue in such manner that the songs of the chorus and the interlocution of the actors formed a continuous piece.
p. 131:
- Contrary to Storra's hope, however, the conversation between Flinx and his new visitor was going very well indeed. ¶Experienced in the ways of political intrigue, if not interspecies interlocution , Treappyn had settled himself into a comfortable squat.