inquisition
noun#14,443
Translations
- 宗教裁判しゅうきょうさいばん
- 異端審問いたんしんもん
- 宗教裁判所しゅうきょうさいばんしょ
English definition
- a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy
Examples
- Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
- Jews fled the Spanish Inquisition and took shelter in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century.