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say it: in-kwuh-ZISH-uhn
inquisition is a noun meaning "a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy". It is pronounced /ˌɪnkwəˈzɪʃən/ — in-kwuh-ZISH-uhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy
a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inquisition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.