Inquisition

See also: inquisition

English

Proper noun

Inquisition

1. (historical) A tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church set up to investigate and suppress heresy.
   • 1981 December 27, John Rupkey, “Leading The Way In Persecution”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 4:

     We know from history that the Catholic Church has historically murdered, mutilated, castrated, maimed, imprisoned and flogged homosexuals. Catholic atrocities during the Inquisition are well documented and cannot be denied. The Church no longer does those things to homosexuals, but it violates their human rights in other ways.

2. (by extension) A harsh or rigorous interrogation that violates one’s rights.

Derived terms

• Spanish Inquisition

Translations

tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church

• Arabic: مَحَاكِمُ التَّفْتِيش pl f (maḥākimu t-taftīš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宗教裁判所 (zōngjiào cáipànsuǒ), 異端裁判所／异端裁判所 (yìduān cáipànsuǒ)

• Czech: inkvizice f
• Finnish: inkvisitio (fi)
• French: Inquisition (fr) f
• German: Inquisition (de) f, Glaubensgericht n, Ketzergericht n
• Greek: Ιερά Εξέταση (el) f (Ierá Exétasi)
• Hungarian: inkvizíció (hu)
• Japanese: 異端審問 (いたんしんもん, itanshinmon)
• Korean: 이단심문(異端審問) (idansimmun)
• Latin: Inquisitio f
• Malay: Pasitan
• Persian: انکیزیسیون (ankizision), تفتیش عقاید (taftiš-e 'aqâyed)
• Polish: inkwizycja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Inquisição f
• Russian: инквизи́ция (ru) f (inkvizícija)
• Spanish: Inquisición (es) f
• Turkish: engizisyon (tr)

harsh or rigorous interrogation

• Finnish: inkvisitio (fi)
• Polish: inkwizycja (pl) f
• Russian: инквизи́ция (ru) f (inkvizícija)

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Inquisition f (genitive Inquisition, plural Inquisitionen)

1. Inquisition

Declension

Declension of Inquisition [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Inquisition	die	Inquisitionen
genitive	einer	der	Inquisition	der	Inquisitionen
dative	einer	der	Inquisition	den	Inquisitionen
accusative	eine	die	Inquisition	die	Inquisitionen

Further reading

• “Inquisition” in Duden online
• “Inquisition” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache