Inquisition, the. ‘Inquisition’ (Lat. inquisitio)
means a legal inquiry, but in the later Middle Ages the term was used to describe a special ecclesiastical tribunal concerned with the detection and prosecution of heresy. In early times the usual punishment for heresy was ... ...
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