"inquisitory" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more inquisitory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most inquisitory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "inquisitory (comparative more inquisitory, superlative most inquisitory)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              224,
              235
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1908, Herbert Baxter Adams, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science:",
          "text": "Called into being probably because of the continued emigration of Puritans to New England, the complaints against the Massachusetts charter, and the growth of Independency in that colony, it was in origin a coercive, not an inquisitory, body, in the same class with the courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, and the Councils of Wales and the North.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the manner of an inquisition or inquiry."
      ],
      "id": "en-inquisitory-en-adj-e-ADLpz4",
      "links": [
        [
          "inquisition",
          "inquisition#English"
        ],
        [
          "inquiry",
          "inquiry#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "inquisitorial"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "inquisitory"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more inquisitory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most inquisitory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "inquisitory (comparative more inquisitory, superlative most inquisitory)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              224,
              235
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1908, Herbert Baxter Adams, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science:",
          "text": "Called into being probably because of the continued emigration of Puritans to New England, the complaints against the Massachusetts charter, and the growth of Independency in that colony, it was in origin a coercive, not an inquisitory, body, in the same class with the courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, and the Councils of Wales and the North.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the manner of an inquisition or inquiry."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inquisition",
          "inquisition#English"
        ],
        [
          "inquiry",
          "inquiry#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "inquisitorial"
    }
  ],
  "word": "inquisitory"
}