Meanings
adjectiveinquisitorious (comparative more inquisitorious, superlative most inquisitorious)
comparative more inquisitorious · superlative most inquisitorious
- obsoleteinquisitorial.
the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty , under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery , no free and splendid wit can flourish
1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC
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