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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