- Here lay the road to the Inquisition.
- In a sense, unknowingly, he had already entered the kindergarten of the Inquisition.
- Like the Catholic fundamentalists during the Inquisition, all fundamentalists want a social dictatorship where they are the dictators.
- On Saturday morning, the inquisition had begun.
- One almost wonders about which side of the Inquisition he is on.
- She was probably glad that the inquisition was over too, Sabine thought drily.
- They lived under constant threat of exposure and extermination at the hands of the Inquisition, which monitored Christians' piety.
inquisitionin‧qui‧si‧tion /ˌɪŋkwəˈzɪʃən/ noun 
1the Inquisition a Roman Catholic organization in the past whose aim was to find and punish people who had unacceptable religious beliefs2[countable usually singular] a series of questions that someone asks you in a threatening or unpleasant way: 
I had to face a two-hour inquisition from my parents about where I’d been.
1the Inquisition a Roman Catholic organization in the past whose aim was to find and punish people who had unacceptable religious beliefs2[countable usually singular] a series of questions that someone asks you in a threatening or unpleasant way: I had to face a two-hour inquisition from my parents about where I’d been.