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Definition of Inquisitors
1. inquisitor [n] - See also: inquisitor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inquisitors
Literary usage of Inquisitors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The royal decree of 16 August, 1570, commanded that the City of Mexico was to
aid and respect the inquisitors, and on 2 November, 1571, the tribunal was ..."
2. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1922)
"In April, 1238, Gregory IX. appointed the provincials of the two Orders in Aragon
as inquisitors for that kingdom, and in the same year the same policy was ..."
3. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1826)
"inquisitors. Their number varied. Two were usually created, ... There was sometimes
an appeal made from the sentence of the inquisitors to the people, ..."
4. Roman Antiquities: Or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans ...by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte (1842)
"CRIMINAL TRIALS BEFORE inquisitors. inquisitors* were persons invested with a
temporary authority to try particular crimes. They were created first by the ..."
5. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1830)
"There was sometimes an appeal made from the sentence of the inquisitors to ...
inquisitors had the same authority, and seem to have conducted trials with ..."
6. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"Alonso de Fuentelsaz in 1487 was one of the inquisitors of Toledo and was then
merely a doctor.—Arch. hist, nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 176, n. 673. ..."
7. Roman Antiquities: Or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans ...by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte (1837)
"inquisitors* were persons invested with a temporary authority to try particular
crimes. They were created first by the kings, then by the people, ..."
8. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"The chief inquisitors were the Dominicans. The Inquisition tried the suspects,
... These inquisitors were invested with plenary authority over every person, ..."
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