Inquisitor Definition

ĭn-kwĭzĭ-tər
inquisitors
noun
inquisitors
An official whose work is examining, or making an inquisition.
Webster's New World
Any harsh or prying questioner.
Webster's New World
An official of the Inquisition.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
inquisitor
Plural:
inquisitors

Origin of Inquisitor

  • Middle English inquisitour from Latin inquīsītor from inquīsītus past participle of inquīrere to inquire into inquire

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French inquisiteur, from Latin inquīsītor

    From Wiktionary

Inquisitor Sentence Examples

  • Ultimately Vieira returned to Portugal with a papal bull exempting him from the jurisdiction of the grand inquisitor, and in January 1681 he embarked for Brazil.

  • He was successively inquisitor at Malta, vice-legate at Ferrara and nuncio in Cologne (1639-1651).

  • The oldest trustworthy sources know nothing of his having exercised the office of Inquisitor during the Albigensian war" (Griitzmacher).

  • At Saragossa Peter Arbue, a canon and an ardent inquisitor, was slain in 1485 whilst praying in a church; and the threats against the hated Torquemada made him go in fear of his life, and he never went abroad without an escort of forty familiars of the Holy Office on horseback and two hundred more on foot.

  • In 1513 the arrival of its first bishop, who later also exercised the function of general inquisitor, added one more to the discordant elements ruling the island.

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