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SPANISH INQUISITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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