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    GRAND INQUISITOR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal)play

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("Grand Inquisitor" is a kind of...):

    Inquisitor (an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition)

    Domain region:

    Portugal; Portuguese Republic (a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil))

    Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros; Jimenez de Cisneros (prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517))

    Tomas de Torquemada; Torquemada (the Spaniard who as Grand Inquisitor was responsible for the death of thousands of Jews and suspected witches during the Spanish Inquisition (1420-1498))

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