Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
auto de fe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.
- noun An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.
- noun A session of the court of Inquisition.
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- noun Alternative form of
auto da fe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
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Examples
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The preacher admits that he broke his promise back in September to foreswear such a literary auto-da-fe.
John Feffer: The Geopolitics of Stupidity John Feffer 2011
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Conceived by Bernstein and writer Lillian Hellman as a response to the era's anti-communism, the musical borrows from Voltaire's narrative, which flings a naive hero, Candide, across continents and into ghastly tragedies - wars, an earthquake, mass rape, an auto-da-fe - while he clings to his belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds."
An acclaimed director leaps into the musical world with 'Candide' Celia Wren 2010
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Holbrooke was game, but if you ever dreamed of seeing a government official confronted with the undeniable, the unexplainable and the inescapable -- well this was such a public auto-da-fe.
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Holbrooke was game, but if you ever dreamed of seeing a government official confronted with the undeniable, the unexplainable and the inescapable -- well this was such a public auto-da-fe.
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Given the serial sexual shenanigans of the then Tory administration along with its alleged animus against lone parents, the party set itself up for the media auto-da-fe which then ensued.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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"'Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now,' said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risks of the archiepiscopacy.'"
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 54
July 25, 2008