inquisition.
宗教裁判所,刑讯,宗教法庭,宗教审判
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›an official investigation, especially one of a political or religious nature, characterized by lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part of the examiners, and recklessly cruel punishments.
- ›any harsh, difficult, or prolonged questioning.
- ›the act of inquiring; inquiry; research.
- ›an investigation, or process of inquiry.
- ›a judicial or official inquiry.
- ›the finding of such an inquiry.
- ›the document embodying the result of such inquiry.
- ›Roman Catholic Church. a former special tribunal, engaged chiefly in combating and punishing heresy.Compare Holy Office. Spanish Inquisition.
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The state Senate that ordered the process is calling it an audit, and all the ballots are being recounted, but it’s not really an audit or a recount — it’s a partisan inquisition.
Strom’s vast sonic worlds called out for meditative inquisitions and influenced a new generation of artists creating impressionistic experimental and electronic music.
They will be subjected to inquisition, and will await resurrection in the grave like any normal Muslim.
In a meeting at the Vatican, Netanyahu and the pontiff talk Syria and Iran and Francis gets a book on the Spanish Inquisition.
Why is the agency getting what amounts to a free ride in the current inquisition?
The Armstrong-Winfrey inquisition continued Friday night, yielding these major bombshells.
“When you say ‘Christianity’ to Israelis they immediately think of the Holocaust and the [Spanish] Inquisition,” he told Haaretz.
When I was at Portugal, there was held at that time the court of justice of the Inquisition.
Philip Limborch died; a Dutch professor of divinity, and author of a history of the inquisition.
After an uncertain period of waiting, the orderly called "Gordon MacRae," and the began.