SPANISH INQUISITION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries)

Example:

Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

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

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