star-chamber in English

noun
1
an English court of civil and criminal jurisdiction that developed in the late 15th century, trying especially those cases affecting the interests of the Crown. It was noted for its arbitrary and oppressive judgments and was abolished in 1641.

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1. The Star Chamber inquisitiοn, is it?

2. He was ordered to stand before the council in the Star Chamber on 14 September and on that day he said his final goodbye to Martyr.

3. Shallow: sir hugh, persuade me not; I will make a star-chamber matter of it; if he were twenty sir john falstaffs he shall not abuse robert shallow, esquire.

4. Harrison Ainsworth, The Star-Chamber, Volume 1‎[1]: That ill-made doublet of green cloth must be exchanged for one of velvet slashed in the Venetian style like mine own, with hose stuffed and Bombasted according to the mode