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Definition of inquisitor in English: inquisitornoun ɪnˈkwɪzɪtəɪnˈkwɪzədər 1A person making an inquiry, especially one seen to be excessively harsh or searching. the professional inquisitors of the press Example sentencesExamples - Well, the inquisitor in our party was curious about the specifics of the policy, and jokingly needled the ranger about the prohibition.
- Many of my inquisitors have been young people who are seriously historically and politically clueless.
- He completely nailed his inquisitors, so much so, that they've pulled the testimony off the Congressional website.
- My friend was dragged off in his underwear to face the university inquisitors.
- He jokes casually with old acquaintances and tackles each question head on, his bright brown eyes searching the faces of his inquisitors.
- I was hired on the spot because my inquisitor thought I evidenced a degree of cheekiness that would ensure my survival as her underling.
- That all sounds great, say his inquisitors, who must be exchanging puzzled glances and looking incredulous during this, but it's not really you, is it?
- Alright, say my more astute inquisitors, why not go the whole hog and adopt my mother's surname or even my granny's, etc etc?
- Visit any office building over four stories in height and you're likely to run a gauntlet of inquisitors.
- I'm also surprised at how confident my inquisitors are that I will naturally have to slam the President, which is the prospect the left seems to be anticipating with some glee.
- He laughed nervously, buying time by saying ‘thanks’ to his inquisitor, then he managed one example.
- At least I was able to satisfy my inquisitors that I wasn't a Freemason, something which evidently bothers the powers that be a good deal.
- To top it all off, the disgraced former councillor accused his inquisitors of dragging his family into the process.
- She was whisked back to her North Yorkshire home - leaving those who had packed the public gallery none the wiser after she repeatedly told inquisitors she could not remember or had no knowledge of what they asked.
- Maybe the inquisitors were confused or just thick.
- The Prime Minister merely looked ahead, eyes and jaw grimly fixed, and uncharacteristically ignored his inquisitor.
- ‘The answer is no, I am not interested, and it gets very tiresome to have it brought up all the time,’ Andrew told a cowering gang of inquisitors.
- For these kindly inquisitors, all romantic beginnings set the full context for everything that followed (never mind what really happened as the couple came to truly know each other).
- This is far from the first time that BBC sources have turned out to have suspect backgrounds and/or motives - either unnoticed or undeclared by our fearless BBC inquisitors.
- It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
Synonyms inspector, examiner, enquirer, explorer, analyser - 1.1historical An officer of the Inquisition.
Example sentencesExamples - Having heard their confessions, the inquisitor could impose a penance or punishment, which ranged from wearing yellow crosses to indicate that a witness had been guilty of heretical activities, to being burned alive at the stake.
- Theologians and inquisitors attributed these offenses to the devil's work, to which socially marginal, uneducated women were seen as especially susceptible.
- As a practical matter the inquisitors tended to pay scant attention to the sincerity of Christian beliefs among the poor, focusing their attention upon the more affluent, who could and did often buy their tormentors off.
- This book, and others like it, instructed inquisitors on how to spot a witch and on which questions to ask in order to elicit the 'right' answers.
- With almost no more native and very few foreign Protestants to prosecute, inquisitors began to target other sorts of religious 'deviants'.
Origin Late Middle English: from French inquisiteur, from Latin inquisitor, from the verb inquirere (see enquire). Definition of inquisitor in US English: inquisitornounɪnˈkwɪzədərinˈkwizədər 1A person making an inquiry, especially one seen to be excessively harsh or searching. the professional inquisitors of the press Example sentencesExamples - He jokes casually with old acquaintances and tackles each question head on, his bright brown eyes searching the faces of his inquisitors.
- It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
- The Prime Minister merely looked ahead, eyes and jaw grimly fixed, and uncharacteristically ignored his inquisitor.
- To top it all off, the disgraced former councillor accused his inquisitors of dragging his family into the process.
- He laughed nervously, buying time by saying ‘thanks’ to his inquisitor, then he managed one example.
- I was hired on the spot because my inquisitor thought I evidenced a degree of cheekiness that would ensure my survival as her underling.
- My friend was dragged off in his underwear to face the university inquisitors.
- At least I was able to satisfy my inquisitors that I wasn't a Freemason, something which evidently bothers the powers that be a good deal.
- I'm also surprised at how confident my inquisitors are that I will naturally have to slam the President, which is the prospect the left seems to be anticipating with some glee.
- Alright, say my more astute inquisitors, why not go the whole hog and adopt my mother's surname or even my granny's, etc etc?
- For these kindly inquisitors, all romantic beginnings set the full context for everything that followed (never mind what really happened as the couple came to truly know each other).
- This is far from the first time that BBC sources have turned out to have suspect backgrounds and/or motives - either unnoticed or undeclared by our fearless BBC inquisitors.
- Maybe the inquisitors were confused or just thick.
- He completely nailed his inquisitors, so much so, that they've pulled the testimony off the Congressional website.
- Well, the inquisitor in our party was curious about the specifics of the policy, and jokingly needled the ranger about the prohibition.
- Many of my inquisitors have been young people who are seriously historically and politically clueless.
- Visit any office building over four stories in height and you're likely to run a gauntlet of inquisitors.
- She was whisked back to her North Yorkshire home - leaving those who had packed the public gallery none the wiser after she repeatedly told inquisitors she could not remember or had no knowledge of what they asked.
- ‘The answer is no, I am not interested, and it gets very tiresome to have it brought up all the time,’ Andrew told a cowering gang of inquisitors.
- That all sounds great, say his inquisitors, who must be exchanging puzzled glances and looking incredulous during this, but it's not really you, is it?
Synonyms inspector, examiner, enquirer, explorer, analyser - 1.1historical An officer of the Inquisition.
Example sentencesExamples - As a practical matter the inquisitors tended to pay scant attention to the sincerity of Christian beliefs among the poor, focusing their attention upon the more affluent, who could and did often buy their tormentors off.
- This book, and others like it, instructed inquisitors on how to spot a witch and on which questions to ask in order to elicit the 'right' answers.
- With almost no more native and very few foreign Protestants to prosecute, inquisitors began to target other sorts of religious 'deviants'.
- Theologians and inquisitors attributed these offenses to the devil's work, to which socially marginal, uneducated women were seen as especially susceptible.
- Having heard their confessions, the inquisitor could impose a penance or punishment, which ranged from wearing yellow crosses to indicate that a witness had been guilty of heretical activities, to being burned alive at the stake.
Origin Late Middle English: from French inquisiteur, from Latin inquisitor, from the verb inquirere (see enquire). |