dialogicaladj.

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. lxxxi Here goeth S. Augustyne forwarde w^t his dialogical proces.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker (title) Dialogicall Discourses of Spirits and Divels.

1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) ii. ii. iii. 258 That dialogicall disputation with Zacharias the Christian.

1740 J. Kelly et al. tr. N. A. Pluche Nature Delineated (ed. 2) I. p. viii We have not entitled these our dialogical lectures, The Natural Philosophy of Children.

1781 G. I. Huntingford Introd. Writing Greek II. 10 In the dialogical parts of Xenophon some maxims of truth are always evidently established.

1838 Sportsman June 335/1 In several of my periodical essays, I have availed myself of the dialogical style.

1880 E. Oppert Forbidden Land Pref. 9 For the sake of a more vivid description, especially in the dialogical parts.

1918 Armenian Herald Sept. 538 The Mesnevi takes the familiar tone of a dialogical discourse.

2000 N. Fairclough New Labour, New Lang. 12 New Labour's language of government is promotional rather than dialogical.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vii. 59 If you are for a cool argument..are you for managing it analogically, or dialogically?

1799 tr. I. Kant Metaphysic of Morals II. ii. 68 If one person is to question another about something, it cannot be done by dialogically, id est, by the master and scholar's questioning and answering one another reciprocally.

1859 Amer. Jrnl. Educ. Sept. 244 The teacher..must be interested as much in the development of his pupil as in his science... He must not lecture, but must teach dialogically.

1882 Daily True Amer. (Trenton, New Jersey) 18 Mar. It is one of the best comic operas, musically and dialogically speaker, ever offered to public entertainment.

1958 Sewanee Rev. 66 411 Mind does not stand alone: it exists intentively in relation to objects and it exists dialogically in relation to other selves.

2010 G. Gray Cinema ii. 69 This globalized cinema..is engaged dialogically with other non-Western cinemas.