• IPA: /ˌɪŋkwɪˈzɪʃən/

inquisition

1. 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.

2. an inquest
3. a questioning
4. 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)

1. (obsolete) To make inquisition concerning; to inquire into.

1. (historical) A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.
2. (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