quadralogue

quadralogue

English

Noun

quadralogue (plural quadralogues)

1. A discourse or colloquy by four people.
   • 1967 Department of Defense appropriations for 1967: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, Parts 5-6

     one of the first, things I did was to form a quadralogue between the Navy, in particular trie Secretary of the Navy, the Assistant Secretary for Systems Analysis, and myself (including our staffs, of course), and the subcommittee

   • 1969 Ohio State University Staff Report Issue 2, page 80

     The consequence was that the Indian session often became a quadralogue with all the members speaking at once.

   • 2003 Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker, Our calling and God's hand in history, page 250

     Our discussion with the work of art is in fact not a dialogue but a quadralogue between the work of art and reality and two viewers.

   • 2004 Histoire Russe

     In the preferred Dostoevskian model, the author creates a genuine dialogue or perhaps trialogue or quadralogue, that is, a polyphony, in which each voice plays an unchallenged role.

Translations

Translations

French: quadrilogue

See also

• monologue
• dialogue
• trialogue
• pentalogue
• multilogue