Synonyms:
inquisition
Meaning: a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)
Synonyms:
Inquisition
Meaning: a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy
Usage examples
The request was complied with; and Borri, closely manacled, was sent under an escort of soldiers to the prison of the Inquisition at Rome.
He went first to Saxony; but met so little encouragement, and encountered so much danger from the emissaries of the Inquisition, that he did not remain there many months.
We leave thus the torturing of texts in the dim cells of the theological Inquisition, a process by which almost any confession required can be and has been wrung from the unfortunate victims, and emerge into the open daylight of common-sense and reason.