inquisitorious
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inquisitorious (comparative more inquisitorious, superlative most inquisitorious)
- (obsolete) inquisitorial.
- 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
- the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty , under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery , no free and splendid wit can flourish
References
[edit]- “inquisitorious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.