Inquisitor Synonyms

ĭn-kwĭzĭ-tər
One who conducts an official inquiry, usually with no regard for human rights
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. interrogator
  2. questioner

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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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