You will come with me before the inquisitional tribunal. From Wordnik.com. [All Our Yesterdays] Reference
Then, there is the country's descent into a bloody and inquisitional autocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Obama Will Not Strike Iran] Reference
Sunday the issuing of subpoenas to 30 different media organisations created an "inquisitional atmosphere". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
During this time, the campaigns against him began that led, in 1326, to the opening of an inquisitional proceeding. From Wordnik.com. [Meister Eckhart] Reference
The inquisitional proceedings, as they are termed by the German jurists, are identical with our ancient presentments. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
And I don't want to see an America where people like Zumbo and Dave Petzal are treated to an inquisitional blacklisting. From Wordnik.com. [ZUMBOMANIA, PART II: David E.] Reference
And when my wife complained to the archdiocese of Central California, she was treated with some type of an inquisitional-type arrangement and really made her so uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Op-Ed: In Ireland, Pope's Letter Falls Short] Reference
Guatemala and Chile are notable examples of countries that have reformed their criminal justice system -- moving away from archaic inquisitional models to embrace more adversarial elements. From Wordnik.com. [David Perez: Mexico's War on Impunity] Reference
And further upthread, the commentators that attempt to shame others into submission, without offering anything that is even remotely cogent, are reflective of a certain inquisitional mood and trend. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Science vs. Politics?] Reference
If the amendment of manners be aimed at, look into Italy and Spain, whether those places be one scruple the better, the honester, the wiser, the chaster, since all the inquisitional rigour that hath been executed upon books. From Wordnik.com. [Areopagitica] Reference
Just about every page suggests that rigorous self-examination was a lifelong habit and that the tennis champion and social activist's self-confessed "aloofness" was the outer shell of a sometimes questing, sometimes inquisitional, always demanding inner life. From Wordnik.com. [Advantage, Mr. Ashe] Reference
He rummages around through inquisitional props, gyves, thumbscrews, leather harness, before coming up with a miniature cat-o'-nine-tails, a Black Forest elves 'whip, its lacquered black handle carved in a bas-relief orgy, the lashes padded with velvet to hurt but not to draw blood. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Participant gets involved in films that would have sent a '40s anti-Communist Congressional investigator into paroxysms of inquisitional delight, back in the day - and did, in the case of Good Night and Good Luck, about the clash between broadcaster Edward R. Murrow and Red-baiting capo Joe McCarthy - on topics ranging from Darfur to covert ops, from global warming to corporate farming. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Stabiner: Small Good News: Hollywood Acts Up] Reference
The silence closed in upon them like the crushing walls of an inquisitional room. From Wordnik.com. [Steadfast Falters] Reference
In 1635 the magistrates were given inquisitional powers over the churches themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
In the dining-room their inquisitional acquaintance, the waitress, fairly ran to them. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
"Well, why not?" answered Laurence, rather shortly, resenting the inquisitional nature of the question. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Spider] Reference
The suspected culprit might be subjected to this ordeal as part of the inquisitional method to determine guilt. From Wordnik.com. [Four Arthurian Romances] Reference
Nor was it originally an important factor in the inquisitional procedure, being unauthorized until twenty years after the Inquisition had begun. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Most of the punishments that were properly speaking inquisitional were not inhuman, either by their nature or by the manner of their infliction. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Thereupon the guilty were turned over to the civil power, and with this act the sermo generalis closed, and the inquisitional proceedings were at an end. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
The popes always upheld with earnestness the episcopal authority, and sought to free the inquisitional tribunals from every kind of arbitrariness and caprice. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Woodville met unflinchingly that terrible gaze of the inquisitional innocent woman, before which men, guilty or guiltless equally, assume the same self-conscious air of shame. From Wordnik.com. [The Twelfth Hour] Reference
If the question related to new measures of oppression, to the introduction of the inquisitional tribunals, etc., the numbers of the Protestants were countless and interminable. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02] Reference
So little did he think of displacing episcopal authority that, on the contrary he provided explicitly that no inquisitional tribunal was to work anywhere without the diocesan bishops co-operation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
If supposed liberals refuse to oppose movements that are "irrationalist, misogynist, homophobic, inquisitional, totalitarian, imperialist and genocidal," it is always worth condemning them wherever and however they do it. From Wordnik.com. [Augean Stables] Reference
If the amendment of manners be aimed at, look into Italy and Spain, whether those places be one scruple the better, the honester, the wiser, the chaster, since all the inquisitional rigor that hath been executed upon books. From Wordnik.com. [Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing] Reference
If the amendment of manners be aimed at, look into Italy and Spain, whether those places be one scruple the better, the more honest, the wiser, the chaster, since all the inquisitional rigor that hath been executed upon books. From Wordnik.com. [Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19] Reference
According to the inquisitional theory, it was not really a punishment, but a means for the culprit to obtain pardon for his crimes, and to amend and be converted, while close supervision prevented him from infecting the rest of the flock. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
While Philip invited the other princes of Europe to follow his example, Clement V protested (27 October) against the royal usurpation of the papal authority, demanded the transfer to his own custody of the prisoners and their property, and suspended the inquisitional authority of the king's ecclesiastic and the French bishops. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
It’s true that it’s harder to conduct a show trial here than in Europe with its system of inquisitional justice, but it’s not impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Has Holder Decided to Try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a Civilian Court?] Reference
'irrationalist, misogynist, homophobic, inquisitional, totalitarian, imperialist and genocidal,' to use Amis's list, is a moral failure as great as their predecessors 'inability to see Josef Stalin for what he was and offer support to communism's victims. From Wordnik.com. [Augean Stables] Reference
O you inquisitional drunken jewjesuit!. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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