inquisition
Noun
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is a type of: court, judicature, tribunal - an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial businessspecific instances:
- spanish inquisition - 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)
- congregation of the inquisition, roman inquisition - an inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants
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