Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Making
strict inquiry ;inquisitorial .
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Examples
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Milton had postponed his poem, in 1641, till "the land had once enfranchished herself from this impertinent yoke of prelatry, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish."
Milton Mark Pattison 1848
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