Inquisitorial: Definition and part of speech

Inquisitorial

  1. a. Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices.
  2. a. Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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