inquisitorial
adjUK /ɪnˌkwɪzɪˈtɔːɹiəl/ · US /ɪnˌkwɪzəˈtɔɹiəl/
Etymology From inquisitory + -ial.
1
Of or pertaining to an inquisition, specifically the Inquisition.
- To parody the inquisitorial rhetoric of another age, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a boy-lover.1980 April 12, John Kyper, “Poisoned”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
2
In a manner of inquisition or inquisitors.
- Those few who by some luck happen to escape the madness of social hypnotization are afraid to give expression to their thoughts, because they are terrorized by the inquisitorial intolerance of crazed mobs and frenzied nations.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
3
Law Describing a trial system in which the prosecutor also acts as judge.
- Derived terms
- inquisitorialism, inquisitorially, inquisitorialness, inquisitorial system, uninquisitorial
- Related terms
- inquest, inquisition, inquisitor, procurator