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Definition: Inquisitorial |
InquisitorialAdjective1. Especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge. 2. Marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor; "the press was inquisitorial to the point of antagonism"; "a practical police force with true inquisitorial talents"- Waldo Frank. 3. Having the authority to conduct official investigations; "the inquisitorial power of the Senate". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inquisitorial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Inquisitorial \In*quis`i*to"ri*al\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression inquisitorial.]. (references) |
| Antonym: accusatorial (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curiosity | Adjective: curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial, inquisitory; curious as a cat; agape; (expectant). |
Inquiry | Adjective: inquiry; Verb: inquisitive; (curious); requisitive, requisitory; catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic; in search of, in quest of; on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic; all searching. |
Jurisdiction | Executive, administrative, municipal; inquisitorial, causidical; judicatory, judiciary, judicial; juridical. |
Severity | Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inquisitorial |
| English words defined with "inquisitorial": Inquisitional, Inquisitorially, Inquisitorious, Inquisiturient. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inquisitorial": Chambre Ardente. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inquisitorial": Inquisiturient. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Inquisitorial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (inquisitorial), Portuguese (inquisitional, inquisitorial), Spanish (inquisitional, inquisitorial). |
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Economic History | Honduras | The Honduran Congress passed a new criminal procedures code last December that will enter fully into effect as of February 2002. It will change the Honduran judicial system from a written inquisitorial system to a more open and transparent oral-adversarial system, similar to that in the United States. (references) |
Honduras | Two codes regulate justice and provide for penalties against corruption: the Criminal Procedures Code (CPC) and the Penal Code (PC). In a landmark reform, the National Congress approved a new CPC in February of 2000, which will come fully into effect in February of 2002. The delay in the CPC's implementation is necessary to provide training for judicial system officials, permitting them to adjust from a traditional written inquisitorial trial system to an adversarial, oral, and public trial system. (references) | |
Human Rights | Venezuela | However, under the previous secretive inquisitorial code, the presumption of innocence generally was not respected nor accepted. (references) |
Political Economy | Venezuela | The Government continued to struggle to implement the 1999 Organic Criminal Procedures Code (COPP), which requires a shift from a secretive inquisitorial system to an open adversarial system, and in November the National Assembly approved reforms to the COPP. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inquisitorial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inquisitorial" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 42 | 52,864 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inquisitorial system | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inquisitorial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | inkuizicioni (inquisitional), kureshtar (curious, inquiring, inquisitive, noser, nosey, nosy, pry, staring, whimsical). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нахално любопитен (inquisitive), инквизиционен (inquisitional), инквизиторски (inquisitional), досадно любопитен. (various references) | |
Czech | inkvizitorní. (various references) | |
French | inquisitorial. (various references) | |
German | inquisitorisch, neugierig (curious, nosy, prying, inquisitive, pryingly). (various references) | |
Greek | ανακριτικόσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | inkvizitorikus, vizsgálóbírói, tolakodóan kíváncsi (nosy), tapintatlanul kíváncsi. (various references) | |
Italian | curioso (curious, inquisitive, agog). (various references) | |
Manx | ard-eyshtagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inquisitorialay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | investigação (investigation), inquisitorial (inquisitional), inquirição (inquisition, investigation, search). (various references) | |
Russian | расследование (debriefing, detection, enquiry, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, perquisition, probe, scruting), пытливый (inquisitive). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | istražni (inquisitional, investigative, investigatory), inkvizicioni, preterano radoznao (nosey, nosy). (various references) | |
Spanish | inquisitorial (inquisitional), curioso (curious, agog, inquisitive). (various references) | |
Swedish | inkvisitorisk (inquisitional), strängt rannsakande. (various references) | |
Turkish | soruşturma ile ilgili, soruşturma (checkback, disquisition, enquiry, examination, hearing, inquest, inquiries, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitional, investigation, probe, quest, question, questionnaire, verification), meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic), araştırma (ascertainment, checkback, checkover, checkup, discourse, disquisition, exploration, explorative, exploratory, inquiries, inquiry, inquisitional, investigation, investigative, probe, pursuit, quest, research, review, search, study). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | слідчий (inquirer, inquisitional, interrogator, investigator), дослідницький (explorative, exploratory, inquisitional, investigative, investigatory, probing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tò mò (inquisitive, nosey, nosy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inquisitorial": inquisitorially. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "inquisitorial" (pronounced 'In*quis`i*to"ri*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-i-i-l-n-o-q-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: inquisitor, liquations. | |
-4 letters: insulator, liquation. | |
-5 letters: aliquots, initials, quintals, quintars, rainouts, tonsilar, tranquil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-i-i-l-n-o-q-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: inquisitorially. | |
+3 letters: disequilibration. | |
+4 letters: disequilibrations. | |
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