inquisition in English

noun
1
a period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation.
she relented in her determined inquisition and offered help
2
an ecclesiastical tribunal established by Pope Gregory IX circa 1232 for the suppression of heresy. It was active chiefly in northern Italy and southern France, becoming notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government.

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1. Condemned by the Inquisition

2. The Inquisition Strikes the Deathblow

3. What is this? The Spanish Inquisition?

4. Galileo defends himself before the Roman Inquisition

5. On Saturday morning, the inquisition had begun.

6. The Inquisition had tortured rich and poor alike.

7. Here lay the road to the Inquisition.

8. The coroner embodies it in an inquisition.

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10. In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition.

11. Inquisition by torture had been abolished by many countries.

12. The detectives have turned the investigation into an inquisition.

13. Finally, the cardinals of the Inquisition rendered their verdict.

14. I never could put up with the woman's inquisition.

15. The Inquisition Barded Charger is a type of horse equipped with armor that can be used as a mount in Dragon Age: Inquisition

16. Can you not see... the drift of this domestic inquisition?

17. The Inquisition functioned as a police force for the church.

18. During the Spanish Inquisition many were forced to convert to Catholicism

19. The Inquisition Barded Charger was available as part of the Flames of the Inquisition Armored Mount promotional DLC that came with the Deluxe, Inquisition Inquisitor's and Game of the Year editions.1 Recruit Master Dennet from the Hinterlands and complete the side quest

20. Apostates in Witchwood is a side quest in Dragon Age: Inquisition

21. “Inquisition and Anti-Semitism —The Church Is Preparing Her Mea Culpa.”

22. The police subjected him to an inquisition that lasted two hours.

23. The police subjected him to an inquisition that lasted 12 hours.

24. The Spanish Inquisition charged him with sinning against God and man.

25. The Inquisition of the Medieval Ages devised many demoniac means of torture.

26. During the inquisition , the torturers would stretch their victims on a rack.

27. She then subjected me to an inquisition about my romantic life.

28. In a sense, unknowingly, he had already entered the kindergarten of the Inquisition.

29. Assigning Michel de Chevin is a war table operation in Dragon Age: Inquisition

30. Some historians have suggested that the Roman Inquisition may have physically tortured Galileo.

31. But soon, thanks to God and Inquisition we will purge this disease!

32. One almost wonders about which side of the Inquisition he is on.

33. Caltrops is a rogue ability from the Sabotage tree in Dragon Age: Inquisition

34. (Psalm 104:5, The Jerusalem Bible) Summoned to Rome, Galileo appeared before the Inquisition.

35. She was probably glad that the inquisition was over too, Sabine thought drily.

36. And as there isn't an Inquisition any more, they take it out on the horses.

37. 26 She was probably glad that the inquisition was over too, Sabine thought drily.

38. Dance with the Dowager: The Allemande is a war table operation in Dragon Age: Inquisition

39. The zeal to conform and inform on their neighbours gave the Inquisition many willing helpers.

40. I had to face a two-hour inquisition from my parents about where I'd been.

41. The first Index was published in 1559 by the Sacred Congregation of the Roman Inquisition.

42. There was no longer any question about the doom the Inquisition had prepared for me.

43. At 70 years of age, Galileo was summoned to appear before the Inquisition a second time.

44. Or that he might have been a Jew whose parents converted to escape the Spanish Inquisition.

45. The burning of witches, the Spanish Inquisition, the slaughter of pagan tribes and so on.

46. The second chapter the reason which expired to the epicycle real estate regulation the inquisition.

47. • The message would be Couched in Inquisition language; the Astropath would parrot the words out telepathically

48. The message would be couched in Inquisition language; the Astropath would parrot the words out telepathically.

49. Regrettably, the flames of the Inquisition devoured every copy, and only its final page has survived.

50. The research goal lies in penetrates "Qin Kuai" this concrete object, the inquisition retributive justice's cultural connotation.