grand inquisitor

1. 1.

   director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal)

   BroaderInquisitor

   NarrowerJimenez de CisnerosTorquemada

   Spain · Portugal

Questions about grand inquisitor

What does grand inquisitor mean?

grand inquisitor means "director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal)".

Is grand inquisitor a common word?

grand inquisitor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.