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Definition of Tomas de torquemada
1. Noun. The Spaniard who as Grand Inquisitor was responsible for the death of thousands of Jews and suspected witches during the Spanish Inquisition (1420-1498).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tomas De Torquemada
Literary usage of Tomas de torquemada
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Spain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Ferdinand the by Ulick Ralph Burke (1895)
"Tomas de Torquemada was appointed Inquisitor- ... The life of Tomas de Torquemada
is the history of contemporary Spain. Born of a noble family, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The inquisitor- general, Tomas de Torquemada (qv), appointed by Pope Sixtus
IV., outdid all precedents in the way of executions and confiscations; ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"(Tomas) de Torquemada, a native of Old Castile, subsequently raised to the rank
of prior of Santa Cruz in Segovia, and condemned to infamous immortality by ..."
4. Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street (1865)
"They founded this convent on the petition of Confessor PW Tomas de Torquemada.
The convent has been closed for some years, but has just been purchased by ..."
5. O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal by Henry O'Shea (1905)
"Founded by the Catholic kings, at the request of the celebrated Fray Tomas de
Torquemada (near it is the Cuarto Real}. See supra. Santo Domingo. ..."
6. A Handbook for Travellers in Spain by Richard Ford (1855)
"Tomas de Torquemada was the first high-priest who carried out, to use Bossuet's
mud phrase, "the holy se- ..."
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