spanish inquisition

1. 1.

   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)

   “the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power”

   “Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition”

   BroaderInquisition

Questions about spanish inquisition

What does spanish inquisition mean?

spanish inquisition means "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)".

Is spanish inquisition a common word?

spanish inquisition 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.