"Inquisition" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Inquisition
  1. (historical) A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Catholicism Derived forms: Spanish Inquisition Translations (tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church): مَحَاكِمُ التَّفْتِيش (maḥākimu t-taftīš) [feminine] (Arabic), 宗教裁判所 (zōngjiào cáipànsuǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), 宗教法庭 (zōngjiào fǎtíng) (Chinese Mandarin), inkvizice [feminine] (Czech), inkvisitio (Finnish), Inquisition [feminine] (French), Inquisition [feminine] (German), Glaubensgericht [neuter] (German), Ketzergericht [neuter] (German), Ιερά Εξέταση (Ierá Exétasi) [feminine] (Greek), inkvizíció (Hungarian), 異端審問 (itanshinmon) (alt: いたんしんもん) (Japanese), Inquisitio [feminine] (Latin), Pasitan (Malay), انکیزیسیون (ankizision) (Persian), تفتیش عقاید (taftiš-e 'aqâyed) (Persian), inkwizycja [feminine] (Polish), Inquisição [feminine] (Portuguese), инквизи́ция (inkvizícija) [feminine] (Russian), Inquisición [feminine] (Spanish), engizisyon (Turkish)
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  2. (by extension) A harsh or rigorous interrogation that violates one’s rights. Tags: broadly Translations (harsh or rigorous interrogation): inkvisitio (Finnish), inkwizycja [feminine] (Polish), инквизи́ция (inkvizícija) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-Inquisition-en-name-Un~zfzWQ Disambiguation of 'harsh or rigorous interrogation': 10 90
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.