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What does Inquisition mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Inquisition? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (historical) a tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.
  2. (by extension) a harsh or rigorous interrogation that violates the rights of an individual
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The Spanish Inquisition rides again, coyotes call in the darkness, and, just for a little while, all is right with the world.
The Derridas were Spanish Sephardim who fled to Algeria during the Inquisition.
I know my average of buying albums has dropped off since they began the Spanish Inquisition concerning file sharing.
Spain was ruled by an absolute monarch and was dominated by the church, whose Inquisition was still proscribing books and works of art.
In my mind, since the Spanish Inquisition, water-boarding has been torture.
I was quite literally at the mercy of the Inquisition and was completely unable to tell a lie.

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