inquisition
see also: Inquisition
Pronunciation
Inquisition
Proper noun
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see also: Inquisition
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌɪŋkwɪˈzɪʃən/
inquisition
- an investigation or inquiry into the truth of some matter
- as I could learn through earnest inquisition
- c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Let not search and inquisition quail / To bring again these foolish runaways.
- an inquest
- a questioning
- The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.
- The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county.
inquisition (inquisitions, present participle inquisitioning; past and past participle inquisitioned)
- (obsolete) To make inquisition concerning; to inquire into.
Inquisition
Proper noun
- (historical) A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.
- (by extension) A harsh or rigorous interrogation that violates the rights of an individual.
- French: Inquisition
- German: Inquisition
- Portuguese: Inquisição
- Russian: инквизи́ция
- Spanish: Inquisición
- Russian: инквизи́ция
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