Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TER-LOC'U-TO-RY, a. [Fr. interlocutoire, supra.]

1. Consisting of dialogue. There are several interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures. Fiddes.
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. Blackstone.