Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
2. Spoken Language

588. Interlocution.

   NOUN:INTERLOCUTION; collocution, colloquy, converse, conversation, confabulation, confab [colloq.], chin-music [slang], talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.
  “the feast of reason and the flow of soul” [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [L.].
  CHAT, causerie [F.], chitchat; small -, table -, tea-table -, town -, village -, idle-talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement; tripotage [F.], cackle, prittle-prattle, on dit [F.]; talk of the -town, – village.
  CONFERENCE, parley, interview, audience, pourparler [F.]; tête-à-tête [F.]; reception, conversazione [It.]; congress (council) [See Council]; powwow [U. S.].
  HALL OF AUDIENCE, durbar [India], auditorium, assembly room.
  DEBATE, palaver, logomachy, war of words, controversy, newspaper war.
  TALKER, gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby [colloq.], chatterer (loquacity) [See Loquacity]; interlocutor (spokesman) [See Speech]; conversationist, conversationalist, dialogist.
   VERB:CONVERSE, talk together, confabulate; dialogue, dialogize; hold -, carry on -, join in -, engage in- a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate (loquacity) [See Loquacity]; powwow [U. S.].
  CONFER WITH, discourse with, commune with, commerce with; hold -converse, – conference, – intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, talk with one tête-à-tête [F.].
   ADJECTIVE:CONVERSING &c. v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable; discursive or discoursive [obs.]; chatty (sociable) [See Sociality]; colloquial, confabulatory, tête-à-tête [F.].
   QUOTATIONS:

1. With thee conversing I forget all time.—Paradise Lost
2. Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.—Pope