inquisition : Idioms & Phrases
congregation of the inquisition
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noun an inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants
Congregation of the Inquisition.
- it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial
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roman inquisition
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noun an inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants
Congregation of the Inquisition.
- it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial
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spanish inquisition
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noun an inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries)
- the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power
- Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition