Synonyms for inquisition
ˌɪn kwəˈzɪʃ ən, ˌɪŋ-in·qui·si·tion

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1. inquisition

   A hunt may be either the act of pursuing or the act of seeking, or a combination of the two. A chase or pursuit is after that which is fleeing or departing; a search is for that which is hidden; a hunt may be for that which is either hidden or fleeing; a search is a minute and careful seeking, and is especially applied to a locality; we make a search of or through a house, for an object, in which connection it would be colloquial to say a hunt. Hunt never quite loses its association with field-sports, where it includes both search and chase; the search till the game is hunted out, and the chase till it is hunted down. Figuratively, we speak of literary pursuits, or of the pursuit of knowledge; a search for reasons; the chase of fame or honor; hunt, in figurative use, inclines to the unfavorable sense of inquisition, but with more of dash and aggressiveness; as, a hunt for heresy.

   Synonyms:
   chase, hunt, hunting, pursuit, search

Princeton's WordNet

1. Inquisitionnoun

   a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy

2. inquisitionnoun

   a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)

Matched Categories

1. • Court
   • Interrogation

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1. inquisitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   inquest, judicial inquiry

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1. President Obama:

   Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ, in our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. ...So this is not unique to one group or one religion.

2. Jeremy Taylor:

   Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

3. Mike Berry:

   This guidance memo is one of the worst constitutional violations I’ve ever seen, and we’ve seen some doozies at First Liberty, this nothing less than a modern-day Inquisition. It demonstrates that the USCG’s real motivation is religious hostility.

4. Katie Langston:

   You can't have a good and loving and gracious God at the same time as you have a 'worthiness' construct that is enforced by a systematic, regular, personal inquisition. They are fundamentally incompatible.

5. Barack Obama:

   And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ, in our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. Michelle and I returned from India — an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity — but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs — acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhiji, the person who helped to liberate that nation.