Inquisition

• 審問、異端審問、裁判

inquire「問い合わせる」、-s「過去分詞接尾辞」から。inquisition cross-examine, chastiseから派生。

inquisition (n.)

late 14c., "judicial investigation, act or process of inquiring," from Old French inquisicion "inquiry, investigation" (12c.), from Latin inquisitionem (nominative inquisitio) "a searching into, legal examination," noun of action from past participle stem of inquirere (see inquire).

In Church history, inquisitors were appointed from 382 C.E. to root out heretics, and the Inquisition refers to the ecclesiastical court (Congregation of the Holy Office) appointed 13c. by Innocent III to suppress heresy. It never operated in Britain. The capital letter form appeared in English only after c. 1500, and usually refers to the office's reorganization 1478-1483 in Spain as what is commonly called the Spanish Inquisition.

1. The Spanish Inquisition charged him with sinning against God and man.

スペイン宗教裁判所は、神と人間を冒涜したと告発した。

2.What is this？The Spanish Inquisition ？

これはどういうことですか。拷問で自白を強要しますか。

3.The police subjected him to an inquisition that lasted two hours.

警察は2時間にわたって尋問を行った。

4.In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition .

中世には、宗教的迫害が発生していた。

5.The Inquisition had tortured rich and poor alike.

宗教裁判所は西方の人々に貧富の区別なく拷問した。