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How to use inquisition in a sentence

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This is the modern inquisition, a modern witch trial that dissimulates and fabricates the field of exchange between the protagonists.
I knew from the way she rolled her eyes that he was performing his ritual inquisition.
His mood was slightly more restrained when he eventually emerged from the inquisition.
And as their coach and captain faced the first questions of a lengthy inquisition, the atmosphere was distinctly funereal.
And they couldn't understand either why anyone would be trying to tax their brains with such a meaningless inquisition.
If we mined the other inquisition records for further nuggets, we might amass a useful hoard of such information.
This matter stands in need both of a higher indagation, and of a longer explication than is pertinent to the present inquisition.
We chatted about this and that, although on reflection I think it might have been more of an inquisition on my part.
Why is the agency getting what amounts to a free ride in the current inquisition?
A rider handed in by the jury indicated a failing of the prison service in its duty of care to the deceased, which rider the coroner refused to append to the inquisition.
Now, there would probably be an inquisition if I got in that late.
His political enemies were conducting an inquisition into the details of his personal life.
During the inquisition Jack was asked if he had had other affairs.
Until 1854 the value of the instrument of a man's death had to be recorded in the coroner's inquisition and, if the matter went to trial, in the murder indictment.
This cockamamie human rights inquisition outfit found him guilty of hate.
This Portuguese inquisition was a local analogue of the more famous Spanish Inquisition.
Should the inquisition find you guilty, one could scarcely avoid the further shame of public exhibition at an auto-da-fe.
The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county.
There's another guy playing Dylan as a formal poet facing some kind of muggle inquisition, but this is the movie's briefest and least consequential thread.
The Spanish Inquisition rides again, coyotes call in the darkness, and, just for a little while, all is right with the world.
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Examples from Classical Literature
King Edward accordingly commanded the mayor of London, his escheator in that city, to take inquisition concerning the premises.
The inquisition at once seized their persons, and proceeded to try them for their crimes.
The auto-da-fe was almost identical with the sermo generalis of the medieval inquisition.
We all know what Mr. Naismith means by this method of inquisition.
When I have returned you will be master of all the facts, and we can then better enter on our inquisition.
History accuses Isabella of having established the inquisition in Spain.
Miss Graham, noticing his hesitation, hastened to end the inquisition.
Even at the risk of its really bringing down the inquisition?
This stopped Larcher's inquisition, though not his curiosity.
Has not the exercise of it been exemplified in the inquisition?
One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.
This inquisition has led to my having many enemies of the worst and most dangerous kind, and has given occasion also to many calumnies.
They both looked searchingly at the young man, who misunderstood the meaning of that inquisition.
Later came the holy wars, inquisition, reformation and more bloodshed.
He died 1642, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, the prisoner of the Inquisition.
All writers but one agree with paramo on the subject of the establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal.
The Inquisition of the Court tried him on the suspicion that he had adopted the antichristian principles of modern philosophy.
Beside, sir, the mob like this Inquisition, and an auto-da-fe is even better sport to them than a bull-fight.
This saco bendito became known as the sanbenito or, more commonly, abito and was necessarily inherited by the new Inquisition.
After a trial by the Inquisition, he was sentenced to the gallies for ten years.
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