A former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy

Usage examples of inquisition.

And the Church became absolutely apoplectic if anybody expressed a causal-level intuition of supreme identity with Godheadthe Inquisition would burn Giordano Bruno at the stake and condemn the theses of Meister Eckhart on such grounds.

Diego Hernandez, a Portuguese, to the post of Alguacil Mayor of the Inquisition, and given him the right to wear a sword in virtue of his office, the Governor, meeting the man in the street wearing a sword against his regulations, made him a prisoner.

Upon these grounds the Supreme Council of the Inquisition at Madrid drew up its impeachment, and delivered it to the inquisitors of Aragon at Saragossa.

Catholic Inquisition published the book that arguably could be called the most blood-soaked publication in human history.

They realized the Baptist might not know the full purpose of their inquisition, but to them that was of little consequence.

Master Jacob Bar Harsha and the commission felt it a most inopportune time to approach the Baptist with their inquisition.

A remnant of my fear of the Inquisition urged me on, and I could not help fancying that spies were at my heels.

I told her I should be delighted to see him, and then I informed her that the operation by which she was to become a man could not be performed till Querilinto, one of the three chiefs of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, was liberated from the dungeons of the Inquisition, at Lisbon.

Eugenio Torralba, tried by the Inquisition of Cuenca in 1531, about whom it was said that he flew through the air on a reed.

And, of course, Vidal Dhu and his FarSeers would have been concentrating on the second vision, the coming of the Inquisition, in which the Princess Mary was so prominent.

I realize that the moment we give official notice of our being in residence in Venice again, we subject ourselves to inquisition by the Dogana tax collectors.

Richard, shuddering at the prospect of being subjected to an inquisition by the most pugnacious ethicist and quality assurance expert that New York City Hospital ever had.

Probably nothing was ever seen in this world more execrable or more dreadful than those great ceremonies celebrated in Spain and Portugal, in the seventeenth century, at the execution of heretics condemned to death by the Inquisition.

Santa Casa, the haven of the Goan Inquisition, men dedicated to preserving souls at the cost of the mere flesh.

That great magician required only three days more to unearth the treasure when my father heard that the Inquisition had given orders to arrest him, and he lost no time in insuring his escape.