| 词汇 | inquisition |
| 释义 | inquisition noun[ C ] formaldisapprovinguk /ˌɪn.kwɪˈzɪʃ.ən/ us /ˌɪn.kwɪˈzɪʃ.ən/ a period of asking questions in a detailed and unfriendly way: 盘问;责难 subject someone to an inquisitionThe police subjected him to an inquisition that lasted twelve hours.警察对他进行了长达12小时的盘问。 Questioning people & asking questions in general ask after someone ask questions of someone/somethingidiom be someone's for the askingidiom beat something out of someone bombard consultative Gallup poll inquisitor outpoll pin someone down ply someone with something poll pry put someone through the millidiom put someone through the wringeridiom rhetorical question roll shoot survey trick question the Inquisition noun[ S ] uk /ˌɪn.kwɪˈzɪʃ.ən/ us /ˌɪn.kwɪˈzɪʃ.ən/ in the past, an official organization in the Roman Catholic Church whose purpose was to find and punish people who opposed its beliefs（旧时天主教的）宗教法庭，宗教裁判所 Christianity: The Roman Catholic Church anti-Catholic anti-Catholicism apostolic beatification Cistercian concordat confessional convent encyclical indulgence liberation theology Madonna Roman Catholicism stoup tabernacle the Angelus the Holy See the Immaculate Conception the Spanish Inquisition the Stations of the Cross inquisition | American Dictionaryinquisition noun[ Cusually sing ] us/ˌɪn·kwəˈzɪʃ·ən/ a detailed questioning, esp. of someone’s beliefs Examples of inquisitioninquisition They are engaged within definite forms of discourse having the character of investigation, diagnosis, inquisition, confession, or judgment. In contrast to the inquisitions of the 1230s numbers burnt decreased rapidly. The acquisition of their own prisons was an important point in the history of the inquisition. Both are symbolised by the painstaking transcription in an appendix of a large part of the inquisition trial on which the book is based. Inquisition studies, as those who have ventured into them know very well, continue to be a minefield. Inquisition documents are rare for the first decade of its existence. Studies of the inquisition have tended to look at the period when it had become a recognisable institution in the years after 1250. Most of the inquisition penances contained an element of financial punishment. The volume went to press in 1996 and was published in the same year that the archives of the inquisition were opened to research. He strings the histories together with an outline narrative that explains the main points of the history of the inquisition and its judicial procedure. Nevertheless, burning remained a crucial part of inquisition strategy, in that even with relatively few victims it allowed inquisitors to intimidate a community. Whatever the reason for its disappearance, the support of a pauper represents a failed experiment from a distinctive phase of the development of the inquisition. Probably most of those who held examinations were testing knowledge of the catechism, but some ministers apparently conducted a moral inquisition too. It was the inquisition's use of prisons for heresy which demonstrated what could be achieved through imprisonment. In addition to their institutional importance, prisons were important to the inquisition on another level. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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