- Inquisition - a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy
--1 is a kind of court, tribunal, judicature
--1 has particulars: Spanish Inquisition- inquisition - a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)
--2 is a kind of interrogation, examination, interrogatory
- inquisition - a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)