ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Inquisitory

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Inquisitory is an adjective meaning In the manner of an inquisition or inquiry.

Meaning

In the manner of an inquisition or inquiry.

Example Sentences

Called into being probably because of the continued emigration of Puritans to New England, the complaints against the Massachusetts charter, and the growth of Independency in that colony, it was in origin a coercive, not an inquisitory, body, in the same class with the courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, and the Councils of Wales and the North.

Synonyms for inquisitory

Depending on context, synonyms include inquisitorial, probing, inquiring, searching.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inquiring, searching, probing, inquisitorial, inquisitionary, recriminatory.

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