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n. -Someone who is asking you a lot of difficult questions and making you feel very uncomfortable. An official of the ecclesiastical court of the former Roman Catholic tribunal for the discovery and punishment of heresy

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  • He has to do this because, for him, like the medieval inquisitors, no challenge to biblical truth is acceptable.
  • But in the light of such deafening coolness, the inner inquisitor is easily drowned out.
  • My inquisitor was a tall man in an ulster, with a green felt hat on his small head.
  • The inquisitor was my old friend, comrade, and hero Steve Lafreniere, so it was a lot of fun.
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