Noah Webster
Interlocutory
INTERLOC'UTORY, adjective
1. Consisting of dialogue.
There are several interlocutory discourses in the holy Scriptures.
2. In law, intermediate; not final or definitive. An order, sentence, decree or judgment, given in an intermediate stage of a cause, or on some intermediate question before the final decision, is called interlocutory; as a decree in chancery referring a question of fact to a court of law, or a judgment on default in a court of law.