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Inquisitorial

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to an inquisition, specifically the Inquisition.

    "To parody the inquisitorial rhetoric of another age, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a boy-lover."

  2. 2
    In a manner of inquisition or inquisitors.

    "Those few who by some luck happen to escape the madness of social hypnotization are afraid to give expression to their thoughts, because they are terrorized by the inquisitorial intolerance of crazed mobs and frenzied nations."

  3. 3
    Describing a trial system in which the prosecutor also acts as judge.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having the authority to conduct official investigations wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor wordnet
  3. 3
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From inquisitory + -ial.

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