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What does inquisitorial mean?

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Adjective
  1. of or pertaining to an inquisition, specifically the Inquisition
  2. in a manner of inquisition or inquisitors
  3. (law) describing a trial system in which the prosecutor also acts as judge
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I need the opinion-drivers in the country to do a less inquisitorial job and to give us a hand on this thing.
He sat on the right, facing the inquisitorial gaze of a packed auditorium, under the interrogatory glare of stage lighting.
The committee system, which was designed to be inquisitorial and to scrutinise ministers, was neutered.
Even the inquisitorial bishops and curia officials granted that he had written a virtual summa.
Our inquiry is inquisitorial, it is not adversarial in conduct or indeed character.
There was barely an inquisitorial question from any of them, and who cares about the ground rules?

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