Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or having the function of an inquisitor.
- adjective Law Relating to a legal proceeding in which the judge is both actively involved in determining the facts and in deciding the outcome.
- adjective Extremely inquisitive or prying.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to inquisition; specifically, pertaining to the Inquisition, or resembling its practices; making strict or searching inquiry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching.
- adjective Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or pertaining to an
inquisition , specifically theInquisition - adjective in a manner of
inquisition orinquisitors - adjective law describing a trial system in which the
prosecutor also acts asjudge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor
- adjective having the authority to conduct official investigations
- adjective 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think I've said before that Letten and his people have a certain inquisitorial aspect to them ...
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German jurists term the inquisitorial proceeding; it became the duty of the Echevin to denounce the ‘Leumund,’ or manifest evil fame, to the secret tribunal. if the Echevins and the Freygraff were satisfied with the presentment, either from their own knowledge, or from the information of their compeer, the offender was said to be
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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And I listened with interest while Mr. Harland put his former college friend through a kind of inquisitorial examination as to what he had been doing and where he had been journeying since they last met.
The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance Marie Corelli 1889
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He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorial powers even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience; into all conduct which had given scandal; into all actions which, though they escaped the law, might appear contrary to good morals.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary David Hume 1743
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Allen said BP and the government are working closely together, with the government holding veto power and adopting an "inquisitorial" stand toward the company's ideas.
WRAL.com Top Stories 2010
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Allen said BP and the government are working closely together, with the government holding veto power and adopting an "inquisitorial" stand toward the company's ideas.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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(How, after all, could I otherwise sustain my insistence that even the European legal systems we conventionally call "inquisitorial" are solidly adversary in my sense of the word?)
Legal Ethics Forum 2009
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"inquisitorial" system used by the board to judge the risk posed by an offender and replace it with an adversarial approach, in which only proven facts could be used.
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These general committees, which were a kind of inquisitorial courts, had not then been established; and we find that the king, in a former declaration. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell David Hume 1743
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Rowley's attorney, Senior Counsel Gilbert Peterson, sought the intervention of the enquiry's chairman, Prof John Uff. Saying he thought Goddard was asking "a very proper question", Uff reminded Peterson that this is a public enquiry "which is" inquisitorial ".
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