INQUISITOR

By SovConn | June 22, 2013

inquisitor. 1. An officer who examines and inquires, such as a coroner or sheriff. 2. A person who inquires; esp., one who examines another in a harsh or hostile manner. 3.Hist. Eccles. law. An officer authorized to inquire into heresies; esp., an officer of the Spanish Inquisition.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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