Definitionadj. especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge
Last update: September 4, 2015
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He had to steer a middle course between the extremes represented by the Carbonari on the one hand and the Sanfedisti on the other, and he consistently refused to employ the cruel and inquisitorial methods in vogue under his successors. [Please select]
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Bartholomew's massacre in France, inquisitorial tortures in Spain, and Smithfield burnings in England, illustrate this assertion. [Please select]
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She would have made an admirable inquisitorial judge, and quite as admirable a sick nurse. [Please select]
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Anthony was threatened, in the true inquisitorial spirit, with a series of floggings, until he should confess what he had not done. [Please select]
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The English judge was not an official agent of an inquisitorial system, but an impartial arbitrator between the prisoner and the prosecutor. [Please select]
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_ Of course she engaged you in her peculiar style of inquisitorial conversation. [Please select]
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With a little pocket-trowel, the inquisitorial implement which always accompanies me, I make a wide window in the middle of the final whorl. [Please select]
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You may picture him with drawn sword--a sword tempered in inquisitorial fires--standing guard over his quibble and ready to defend it with his spiritual life. [Please select]
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