inquisition
宗教裁判所,刑讯,宗教法庭,宗教审判
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- : an official investigation, especially one of a political or religious nature, characterized by lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part of the examiners, and recklessly cruel punishments.
- : any harsh, difficult, or prolonged questioning.
- : the act of inquiring; inquiry; research.
- : an investigation, or process of inquiry.
- : a judicial or official inquiry.
- : the finding of such an inquiry.
- : the document embodying the result of such inquiry.
- : Roman Catholic Church. a former special tribunal, engaged chiefly in combating and punishing heresy.Compare Holy Office. Spanish Inquisition.
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Examples
The state Senate that ordered the process is calling it an audit, and all the ballots are being recounted, but it’s not really an audit or a recount — it’s a partisan inquisition.
Strom’s vast sonic worlds called out for meditative inquisitions and influenced a new generation of artists creating impressionistic experimental and electronic music.
They will be subjected to inquisition, and will await resurrection in the grave like any normal Muslim.
In a meeting at the Vatican, Netanyahu and the pontiff talk Syria and Iran and Francis gets a book on the Spanish Inquisition.
Why is the agency getting what amounts to a free ride in the current inquisition?
The Armstrong-Winfrey inquisition continued Friday night, yielding these major bombshells.
“When you say ‘Christianity’ to Israelis they immediately think of the Holocaust and the [Spanish] Inquisition,” he told Haaretz.
When I was at Portugal, there was held at that time the court of justice of the Inquisition.
Philip Limborch died; a Dutch professor of divinity, and author of a history of the inquisition.
After an uncertain period of waiting, the orderly called "Gordon MacRae," and the inquisition began.
In the midst of their conjuring, the Inquisition came down upon them.
In 1726 he was denounced to the Inquisition for the offence of reading forbidden books.