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‖ auto-da-fé, -de-fé|ˌautodaˈfe|
Plural autos-da-fé; improperly auto-da-fés.
[The former, Pg. (also used in Fr.); the latter, Sp. (Pg. da of the, Sp. de of) = judicial sentence or act of (the) faith. Cf. act n. 9. (The Portuguese form was first known in England.)]
1. A judicial ‘act’ or sentence of the Inquisition.
1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6207/1 There will be an Auto da Fé in the Church of the Monastery of St. Dominick [in Lisbon]. 1817Byron Juan i. xxxii. note Wks. (1846) 594/2 Little less than an auto-da-fé was anticipated.
2. The execution of a sentence of the Inquisition; esp. the public burning of a heretic. Also transf.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Act of Faith, Auto da fe..a solemn day held by the inquisition, for the punishment of heretics, and the absolution of the innocent accused. 1771Fletcher Checks Wks. 1795 II. 278 Papists call their burning of those whom they call heretics an auto de fe. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 333 The Inquisition, with its horrible autos-da-fé. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xliii. 575 Busy in celebrating auto-da-fés and burning heretics. 1917Kipling Diversity of Creatures 148 Evidently this was their established auto-da-fé. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 175 Help! Help! they want to burn my pictures, They want to make an auto da fe! |