Definition of Inquisition

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Inquisition

The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation.

Judicial inquiry; official examination; inquest.

The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.

A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.

To make inquisistion concerning; to inquire into.

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Inquisition Quotations

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
Jack Schwartz

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
John Foxe

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Tony Benn

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Rose Schneiderman

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
John Foxe

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
Thomas Howard

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