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Example sentences for "inquisitor"

Lexicographically close words:
inquisitionis; inquisitions; inquisitive; inquisitively; inquisitiveness; inquisitores; inquisitorial; inquisitoribus; inquisitors; inquit
  1. They told him his books had been burnt in Brabant by Hoogstraaten, hoping to make him write something against the inquisitor which would drive him over definitely into the Lutheran camp.

  2. When you have done that your part as inquisitor is done.

  3. You have not repeated, cousine," the inquisitor assured her.

  4. Konrad, one of these friars, had been nominated inquisitor by Pope Innocent III, and coming to Eisenach in 1226 soon won the affections of Ludwig and Elisabeth.

  5. Coloured as they may be to suit the temper of inquisitor and informer, there is no denying that they point to an advanced state of monastic decay.

  6. On the Monday he returned, along with the Inquisitor and eight assessors, to question the Pucelle, and ask her why she had resumed that dress.

  7. The Inquisitor De Mouchy, Fra Giustiniano of Corfu, Maillard, dean of the Sorbonne, and others, attempted to refute his positions in a style of argument which exhibited the extremes of profound learning and silly conceit.

  8. Ory, Oriz, or Oritz, Inquisitor of the Faith, i.

  9. Demochares, or De Mouchy, a doctor of the Sorbonne and an inquisitor of the faith, his controversial pamphlet, i.

  10. He had other letters from Rome for the chief officers of the court; his patents as legate were duly sealed and signed; and he exhibited the most ample powers for creating a grand inquisitor and all the judges of the Holy Office.

  11. If a charge entered for prosecution were destitute of every appearance of truth, the inquisitor should not on that account expunge it from his register, because what at one period has not been discovered, may be so at another.

  12. Having been appointed by the pope inquisitor in Languedoc, he there founded his order, which was approved of and ratified, in 1216, by Honorius III.

  13. Jesus Christ is the first inquisitor of the new law; the popes were inquisitors by divine right; and they afterwards communicated their power to St. Dominic.

  14. The Fourth Syndic hesitated, and with reason; had Baudichon, had the Inquisitor known the whole, they could hardly have placed him in a more awkward dilemma.

  15. In France the inquisitor was confounded with the commissary, and all were supposed to be Dominican friars.

  16. In the pitch darkness the iron door of the prison is suddenly opened and the Grand Inquisitor himself comes in with a light in his hand.

  17. Your suffering Inquisitor is a mere fantasy.

  18. When the Inquisitor ceased speaking he waited some time for his Prisoner to answer him.

  19. Your Inquisitor does not believe in God, that’s his secret!

  20. The inquisitor at Florence was ordered to be reprimanded for his conduct; and Riccardi, the master of the sacred palace, and Ciampoli, the secretary of Pope Urban himself, were dismissed from their situations.

  21. The Grand Inquisitor read in that glance that he was known; and for a brief minute a strange, an incomprehensible sensation, thrilled through him.

  22. He bore her roughly to a recess, divided off at the upper end of the hall, by a thick black drapery, in which sat the Grand Inquisitor and his two colleagues.

  23. He was chosen by the Grand Inquisitor as his companion, on some secret expedition two days after the trial, unsuspicious of the danger awaiting him, till the desolate scene on which they unexpectedly entered flashed terror on his mind.

  24. In her trouble the girl looked much older; it was a grave, sad, but determined woman who was standing there to receive her sentence, and suddenly the inquisitor changed her course.

  25. She gazed at her inquisitor with eyes full of dumb distress.

  26. Grand Inquisitor) Father (the Grand Inquisitor approaches), what can you tell us of a certain Alfonso Fontanares?

  27. The Grand Inquisitor is stationed in the middle of the stage.

  28. The Grand Inquisitor He is a pupil of Galileo.

  29. The Grand Inquisitor and Don Fregose To Don Ramon.

  30. The Grand Inquisitor Sir, do you dare to say such words in this place!

  31. The Grand Inquisitor We have taken such measures that obedience may be rendered both to the Holy Office and to the king.

  32. The Grand Inquisitor (aside) This man may prove a dangerous fellow.

  33. Lothundiaz But-- The Grand Inquisitor It is the wish of the Holy Office that you do so.

  34. The Grand Inquisitor You call yourself an inventor, and yet you think of nothing but fortune!

  35. The Grand Inquisitor We did not imprison the man on the charge that he had commerce with the devil, nor because of his impiety, nor because he springs from a family suspected of heresy; but for the safety of monarchies.

  36. The Grand Inquisitor Well, my son, how are you?

  37. The Grand Inquisitor Your words are impious; the devil has a master whose existence is proved by our burning of heretics.

  38. The Grand Inquisitor Before setting you at liberty, the Holy Office must be sure that the means you employ are natural-- Fontanares Father, if I had made a compact with the Evil One, would he have let me languish here?

  39. The Grand Inquisitor Surely, the king will not expose himself to such peril?

  40. The Grand Inquisitor And mine is to make men respect the privileges of the Sacred Office.

  41. One of the archons of Athens was inquisitor of the faith.

  42. And better still, if the empty term he selects is used in a contrary sense; the sonorous words justice, humanity, mean to him piles of human heads, the same as a text from the gospels means to a grand inquisitor the burning of heretics.

  43. The people at last arose, and the inquisitor was but too happy to escape from the country with whole limbs.

  44. The inquisitor of a rural township in Piedmont burned the victims so plentifully and so fast, that there was not a family in the place which did not lose a member.

  45. The archbishop of the diocese proceeded afterwards to the trial of such as the inquisitor had left in prison.

  46. Any more appeals, causes, or motions, in the Supreme Court of the Lord High Inquisitor Punch, to-day?

  47. Down the inquisitor fell upon his knees, offering him all his money, and promising never to return if he would let him begone.

  48. The grand inquisitor was equally bent upon dispatching a number of the familiars of the Holy Office.

  49. At last, in the rear of the army, between two black Moorish horsemen, rode the Grand Inquisitor of Granada, on a mule as white as snow.

  50. Then you would insinuate, friend Mateo, that there is a kind of Moorish limbo, or purgatory, in the bowels of these mountains, to which the padre Inquisitor was borne off.

  51. The goblin inquisitor of Hyde Park had vanished with his hat and cloak.

  52. He had regarded it from the first as ‘the certain beginning of the end’; from the first, he had been prepared with specious explanations for any such inquisitor as the one who had actually arrived no later than the Saturday afternoon.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inquisitor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    busybody; detective; eavesdropper; examiner; gossip; inquirer; inquisitor; interrogator; questioner; sightseer