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Cross-examination

noun

(law) close questioning of a hostile witness in a court of law to discredit or throw a new light on the testimony already provided in direct examination.

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"Cross-examination" Quotes from Famous Books

... the years receded, and unknown to any soul on earth, even his wife, there was growing up deep down in his heart a gnawing, insidious, ever-festering fear that after all, after all, he might have been mistaken. And yet on the sacred oath of a soldier and a gentleman, against the most searching cross-examination, again and again had he most confidently and positively declared that he had both seen and heard the fatal interview on which the whole case hinged. And as to the exact language employed, he alone ...

— The Deserter • Charles King

... Constant cross-examination on the Amritsar affair, involving the necessity of framing polite replies to thinly-veiled suggestions that MONTAGU rhymes with O'DWYER, is making the SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA a little restive. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 7th, 1920 • Various

... meeting, Madame bent herself to the deft cross-examination of Rust "Had the Captain Rouille joined St. Cyr as a cadet officer, or had he served in the ranks of the French Army?" He had served in the ranks, and broke into details of his training and garrison service which convinced her that he ...

— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone

... has been making Mr. Cameron so much trouble?" persisted the prisoner, glad to note that Big Bob was fretting under his cross-examination. ...

— Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam • G. Harvey Ralphson

... "spirits" who do the work; unaware that they are unconsciously projecting their astral bodies, charged with prana, and performing the feat themselves. The best mediums, however, will generally tell you that they strongly "wish" that the thing be done, and a little cross-examination will reveal the fact that they generally make a clear mental picture of the actual happening just before it occurs. As I have already stated, however, the best proof is the fact that advanced occultists are able to duplicate the phenomena ...

— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi

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