Inquisition
[ɪŋkwɪ'zɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪnkwɪ'zɪʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals).
(noun.) a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy.
亚伦編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation.
(n.) Judicial inquiry; official examination; inquest.
(n.) The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.
(n.) A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.
(v. t.) To make inquisistion concerning; to inquire into.
編輯:梅尔维尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Inquest, judicial inquiry.
黛博拉校對
解釋/意思:
n. an inquiring or searching for: investigation: judicial inquiry: a tribunal in the R.C. Church called also 'the Holy Office ' for the discovery repression and punishment of heresy unbelief and other offences against religion.—v.t. (Milt.) to investigate.—adjs. Inquisit′ional making inquiry: relating to the Inquisition: Inquis′itive searching into: apt to ask questions: curious.—adv. Inquis′itively.—ns. Inquis′itiveness; Inquis′itor one who inquires: an official inquirer: a member of the Court of Inquisition.—adj. Inquisitō′rial.—adv. Inquisitō′rially.—n. Inquis′itress an inquisitive woman.—adj. Inquisitū′rient (Milt.) inquisitorial.—Grand Inquisitor the chief in a Court of Inquisition.
校對:利昂
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of an inquisition, bespeaks for you an endless round of trouble and great disappointment. If you are brought before an inquisition on a charge of wilfulness, you will be unable to defend yourself from malicious slander.
校對:迈拉
例句/造句/用法:
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Here even the Inquisition was restored. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In all countries, a severe inquisition into the circumstances of private persons has been carefully avoided. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Galileo, although he was ill, went to Rome, and was placed on trial before the Inquisition. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He was the life of the ship, the bloody-minded son of the Inquisition! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Nothing is hidden from their inquisition, and their families mutely rule our city. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It looked like a drawing of the Inquisition. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It was this that brought him before the Inquisition and that branded him as a dangerous heretic, and it was this that placed him in the forefront of the world’s discoverers. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Rather than suffer the pains of the Inquisition he agreed, and made his solemn declaration. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Galileo’s teachings were pointed out as dangerous to the teachings of the Church, and the officers of the Inquisition began to consider how they might best deal with him. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They were paying for the Inquisition now, all right. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The Inquisition did its work ruthlessly. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It is a great pity the playful Inquisition is no more. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Whether he said this or not there can be no doubt but that the great astronomer knew the performance was a farce, and that the world did move in spite of all the Inquisition could declare. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The idea of riding all day long over such ghastly inquisitions of torture is sickening. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
汉密尔顿校對