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inquisitorious

inquisitorious adjective: inquisitorial.

Adjective

inquisitorious (comparative more inquisitorious, superlative most inquisitorious)

  1. (obsolete) inquisitorial.
    • the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty , under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery , no free and splendid wit can flourish1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC

Forms of inquisitorious

comparativemore inquisitorious
superlativemost inquisitorious

Questions about inquisitorious

What does inquisitorious mean?
Inquisitorious means inquisitorial.
What part of speech is inquisitorious?
Inquisitorious is an adjective.

Words near inquisitorious in the dictionary

  1. inquisitorial system
  2. inquisitorial systems
  3. inquisitorialism
  4. inquisitorially
  5. inquisitorialness
  6. inquisitorious
  7. inquisitors
  8. inquisitorship
  9. inquisitorships
  10. inquisitory
  11. inquisitour

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